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are * Ae shagnes. eddition to the French police, Rome and Brussels police want into action. At first in Whitehall there was an inclination to think that the disappearance was merely a holiday escapage. Ndw a more serious view is being taken and as was sad yesterday: “We are not excluding any theory.” THE CONTINENTAL POLICE ARE OF THE OPINION THAT THE MEN HAVE SEPARATED BY NOW. Hamburg radio last night quoted an unconfirmed report by Bucharest radio that they had arrived in Prague. This is the first time the diplomats’ disappearance had’ been mentioned by an Eastern European country. The hunt went on in France following an all-day watch on the home of Mr. and Mrs_—Scherres, Maclean's sister and brother-in-law. A caretaker said they had gone to Deauville to spend the week-end with friends. But it was learned that Mr. and Mrs. Scherres had left for Le Bourget. They had booked seats on British uropean Airways Flight No. 340 for London. Just as the plane was about to leave, French dttectives told Airways officials that they wanted gto q¥estion Mr. and Mrs. Scherres. The plane took off apd _. Ute couple were accompanied by detectives to a private office on the airport. M.1.5 chief acts After one and three-quarter hours Mr. and Mrs. Scherres walked out with the detectives and told Airport officials they were now free to fly to London. Seats were reserved for them on the 5.30 p.m. plane. Activity in Rome followed a Foreign Office statement | that a telegram received in England by Burgess’s mother had been sent from the Italian. capital. Rome police later confirmed that such a cable had been sent. Belgian police intensified their search after a report that the men had been seen in the Antwerp area. In London it, was announced yesterday that Mr. Morrison, Foreign Secretary, will make a statement in the House tomorrow on the disappearance of the men, AND SIR PERCY SILUITOE, HEAD OF MLL5, IS FLYING TO WASHINGTON TODAY TO CONFER WITH MR, EDGAR HOOVER, CHIEF OF JHE F.B.1., ABOUT TIGHTENING UP SECURITY IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA. Scotland Yard experts believe that telegrams purpqrting to|be from the men—one from Burgess and two ffrom Maplean-—were sent after the news that they were missing ha@ been published. Both the Maclean telegrams—one to his home at atsfteld, Surrey, where his wife is expecting a third baby, : 324 |