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i Bu OCT 20 Wt Zs 2 DiplonQs” Whereavouts Still Mystery LONDON, June 8 UPL—The inystery of Britain's two vanished diplomats deepened tonight with the disclosure pf telegrams from France saying 8 planned "& “Jong Mediterranean holiday” and” the other "bad to_leaye inex peciedly.. Tha messages supposedly came from the aiplomaig, Bonajd. BD. Maclean and Guy "Burgess, but were sent by a third person be- lived by Paris potice to be of a different nationality, | The messages gave. rise to. «, dozen ferent theorles_ in this & ital, fearful_that ibe Ruspiah-speaking pair may be jako ing Anglo-American te. Russia—pethaps under. duress. Counter-espionage agents stepped up the search throughout. western Europe and especially around the Mediterranean. Diplo- atie missions behind the ron Curtain already had urgent orders ‘to keep their eyes and eats open. The Foreign Office gave out the‘ ests of three messages received this week by relatives of the two men, who went to France by steamer and disappeared = two weeks ago. (The United Press reported the two mi disappeared frem. a cross-chantel seamer when it pul ts at St. Malo on, May_22 on ani excursion to the iste of Jersey. ‘Their Juggage was Jeft jn their tabln--Editor's note] Text of Messages ‘The text of one message, re- ‘ceived by the American wife of MacLean, 38-year-old head of the Foreign Office’s American depart- ment: “Had fo leave unexpectedly. Sorry, Darling. } igve you. Please ; do not stop Joving me. Donald.” ; Another, unsigged, recejved by his mother, Lady MacLean “Tam quite alt right be not worry. Love to all” One received by Mrs. J. R. Bassett, mother of Burgess, read: “Terribly sorry tor my silence.+ Am embarking en long Mediter-/ ranean holidey. De forgive. Guy.” A Foreign Office spokesmant seid Britain “is accepting the mes-! vsages as having originated with the two men,” because of the general tone and phrasing. ‘The originals of all three, how, ver, were in the handwriting of! we mysterious third person. Th spokesman acknowledged that, in at oo, “ (3 Bia . tee, Giwtt Nichol Rosen Trasy Tele. Nease. andy, LBD « (90 - 370° BYE Z these tebmstances, there “could be some alight doubt.” A high offical in Paris said the handwriting appeared not that of an Englishman. » The independent Paris news- > paper France Soir said army inf telligence officers beleved the pair are now in Warsaw, capital of Communist Poland, Paris police, however, denied © the two had got through the French security fenee. Burgess had returned to Eng: © jand from Washington recently under a cloud. Three times within jan hour last February 28, he was caught in an automobile breaking ithe Virginia State speed limit. |Police said he was doing 80 but he claimed diplomatic immunity. {Governor John Battle protested | io the State Department, which Sled the meidents to the em-/ om diaphote * assy's altention, Ambassador Sir iver Franks asked the British | GUY FRANCIS de My roa jovernment to recall Burgess ‘ is 4 Promptly, and he was recalled, O”t of pair fast asen Paria Page 6 SEP: St oe Times-Herald —.— at. _ Wash. Post Rash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror —— N. Y. Compass Room. ba ec j