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‘5 i \COTLAND” YARD ‘and: Freneh’ police were ‘checking’ *T Jast night on two telegrams, apparently ‘sent from? paris’ on Wednesday night, by the missing 'Foreixn : ffice-men Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess. Reet na ., {The messages—one to MacLean’s widowed mother,;' ye . ' Lady MacLean, at Kensington, and the other to Bur- * 7 mo _ . Ugess’s home in the West End—were the ‘first news « oy “ot }of the two since they drovet to Southampton and*{ . q crossed by the night boat to St. Malo, Brittany, on} . - So far,-if has not been possible to establish the | authenticity of the telegrams, said a spokesman for $ the Foreign Office, which yesterday announced that : the two men had been suspended for being “ absent Py w! out, leave.” , we Bea weet a weds No. secret papers missing’ would have been simple for them to have contacped 2 the British Embassy in Paris. -Byt no message from rm. |! has been received there or at the Foreign Office. -°." 7s) Latest information in London is that the French police } have reason to believe MacLean and Burgess are still in Paris, There, every gendarme and Security man has been given their descriptions and told “Find them, quickly,” ? aoe men who flew to Paris on Tuesday are staying to help. The search may spread to al! France. a, “Rijquiries have also been made in Sweden, Finland, Norway,» Derdnark, Switzerland, West. Germany and other. countries: { But they are purely routine, ef ae Bete ky ‘There seems'to be no evidence to support the theory’ et this may. have been a fight for political motives or that] as 8 has been hastily conjectured in some quarters, the two 4 be. “on their way to Moscow.” foes dentties © ¢ Reports ‘that highly confidential documents are. +. missing from files In MacLean’s charge are completely, |<-2he quéstion of a political flight has been considered because, In such a strange Case, even improbabilities cannot be ignored.’ ut* there" is no -reason ‘to suspect ‘either, of Communist affillations:. Burgess certainly held Communist views whenghe, wis at-Cambridge,:20 years ago, and he has always remaiged, a Plose student of Marxist theory and Stalinist. practice, Pet) evo; his, friends, including: myself; has seen anything] to; ost.that he has, for years, been ‘even’a © fellow: traveller. ce H Le 4 Bo