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+ ated Dus. ee ee ~ \Riddle of Missing Diplomats ' Cdntinued from Page 1 ‘Cannes and Nice that Donald ‘Maclean made a rendezvous to meet his wife near La Garde Freinet on August 23, and that although hig wife left her villa in search of him for two whole trays he called off the appoint- Ment at the last moment because -of the publicity which her move- ments had aroused. To-day. as excitement on the Riviera grew at the reports that Donald Maclean had been found, there was intense police activity at the Villa Sauvageonne. — French Intelligence agents, on instructions from their Paris head- ‘quarters, surrounded the house and [no one was allowed near. - . The police tried to make contact with Mrs. Maclean herself to dis- cover whether the message she had received from her husband was genuine or nol. : All that the police would say was that they no information officially that Donald Maciean had been found. Meanwhile, what was happening in London? The reports that M.I.5 had located not only Maclean but also Guy Burgess (of whom there is no other news whatsoever) were pub- shed in one or two morning newspapers. At, four o’clock Foreign Office s were roused from their investigate. : investigations lasted severm@ hours. Sood after breakfast the Security authorities were brought in. offici beds Thar "Hour after hour the talks on. Then, soon after 11 a.m, Official statement was issued: . Reports published in a section of this morning’s Press that Bur- gess and Maclean had _ been. jocated were officially stated by the Foreign Office to-day to be without foundation, _ It was added that the Foreizn ffice had checked that the source ayoted in the reports had made no such statements a6 those attributed to it. . C. F. Melville, the " Evening. News” Diplomatic Correspondent, | makes thig comment on the state- | ent: H Although issued by the Foreign | Office the statement really comes. from the Security authorities. | Tt_is they who have informed the Foreign Office that they have nothin substantiate the re rts t Burgess and Maclean ave been found. I gather that every possible che, even the most fantastic. 6 taken” up. by the security authorities and investigated in case it might lead to some new facts which would help to salve the mystery - The view in official quarters. therefore stands as it did before: ' that there sre no hard facts to go on, and it is not possible to say’ where the two men are or even. whether they are dead or aliye. i The investigations by the Hritish Security authorities, in co-gpera-, tion with their opposite numbers in all the Western Eurgpean, countries, are continuing. ..: 7) | a —— 7 ego oe - we hh - : ke a at * 1 Pao my ‘ows Tae 8 7, r. * a a ae wae. rs ee a