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The frst indffect contacts. 1t Th*swsgested Bere, may have been madé thebugh her sister ind brother-Ig-law, Mr. and Mrs. Terrel, wh live in Biarritz. People in Beauvallon think these ndirect contacts prompted Mrs, faclean to come on holiday to the remote old chateau of La Sauvage onne—The Little Savage—set off the road two miles front here amid a forest of pine and cypress. La Sauvageonne is owned by M. Gosselin. He is a close friend of the Terrels. And M. Gosselin is not entirely unconnected with France's Secret Service. La Sauvageonne is an Ideal hideout. too, for any first meet- @ belween the Macieans since May 25, the day when Mr. Donald Maclean so mysteriously disap- reared with his fellow-diplomat, Guy Burgess ere with Mrs. Maclean are her nother, Mrs. Dunbar, her two married sisters, and her own three jidren, She has practically barri- ded herself inside the chateau. “Resembled her’ But since her somewhat sudden arrival on August 18 she has made ‘ree quiet trips up into the in- esor of this desolate region. The latest was tonight. She ts velieved to be staying with fnends it Grimaud. four miles from here. ier sister's car Is parked at the Hotel Beausoleil there and a room io. Tis booked for “friends of M. Gosselin. Yesterday Mrs. Maclean went o the liltie village of La Garde Freinet, in the picturesque foot-| | °F onch police Inspectors from aults of the Var. six miles from/ | scareeuiies ‘on direct” orders from ay 7 Paris are still on duty there She was driven there un-) |ajthough they remain invisible. ostentatiously by M. Gosselin. And any unexpected’ and un- ‘Today at La Garde Freinet Iwas! | wanted caller trespassing beyond old at the one and only hotel. the | /the front driveway gate risks \uberge Sarrisine. by the owner, ML Jean Marquiset. that a woman esembling Mrs. Maclean had called ‘there vesterday with a -renchman, spparently expecting © meet somebody. ‘The police came today to inspect the hotel books and sce who has oeen Staying there recently. Callers it La Sauvageonne this afternoon were told that Mrs. Maclean and he whole family were “not at nome, and we don’t know where hey are,” but I could see them vlaying near the house. . Berthier, a local inhabitant vHo took his wife up to do some ipndry for the household. tol¢ ms. wife had a cup of coffee with 's, Maclean. 5 re while walls rising out of forest, is weil guarded. being atlacked by ferocious dogs. day offered the most likely sum- mary of events leading up to the present time. Brae sister and brother-inlaw. There were indications that Maclean, and presumabiy Burgess, then in the region. The: and A SAUVAGEONNE, where Mrs. jelinda Maclean is staying with her mother, sisters, and children, Police guards The chateau, with its stecp. the A close friend of the family to- Contact, the friend agrees, was ibly made between Donald Jean and his wife through her were Y, had been ported seen in bars in Cannes Nice. The decision was then made for Page THREE—Col. 6 a> “Detain them’ iT? understand that the Pren{n Police who arrived here were alerted by Scotland Yard. and thht ‘Macleans in _ Contact’ > From PAGE ONE Mrs. Maclean to “plant” herself here in the hope that it might bring her nusband out into the open to see his wife and children —the youngest born onlv a few days after his disappearance. Mrs. Maciean and family ar- rived, but so did squads of French Police and Special Branch officers. A car-load of them met her at Nice while another car-load arrived simuitaneously at the chateau. “The resulting publicity probably frightened off Maclean, who planned to come to see his wife here,” the friend said. “But the authorities say Maclean still believes it wor! while for her to stay on, This belief may well be rewarded. is quite probable that arrange: ments for a second rendezvous were made for # spot not far from here, possibly at La Garde Freinet, surjhat once again nothing hap- Mrs. “th: pens Mrs. Maclean and the whol seem in good spirits... - | published The same friend reports ner (ima le y they have been asked. to detain || Maclean and Burgess when found. This has been confirmed from police headquarters at Nice. Late tonight there has been @ further report that Maclean and Burgess had been seen at Cap Camarat, a remote community on the Medj- terranean shore south of here. One further Interesting sideline to this mysterious case js that a French Minister recently told some friends in confidence in Cannes that. of course. “both British and French authorities know where Maclean and Burgess are and they are just awaiting the proper time to seize them.” '‘Found’ Reports Dentedby MIS JREPORTS yesterday that Burgess and Maclean had been found produced an unpre-/ cedented result, forcing an official | statement out ‘of Britain's M15, most silent of silent services, The Foreign Office was used as! the mouthpicce for the denial, ou! facts it contained were issued © with the approval of Sir Percy | Sillitoe, who. as chief of M15, is | responsible only: to, the Prime Minister. The statement said: *“ Reports dim a section of this morning's Press that Burgess and Maclean ‘had been located were officially stated by the Foreign Office today to be without founda- ion. Tt was added that the Foreign Office had checked that the soufce quoted in the reports (M.1.5) Had le no statements as th attributed to it. Ss