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1 Hunt for 2° Swomats: Widens to Italy After™ : Telegram From Rome. | Foreign Office Pramas ' © Statement in Cose-in > Pagel lament. Monday 3: ps aa SS aye anid Paes ee i LONDON,. June" 9.-—The ” bis ist” digiomola, Sileced aedaent cab she" pistons @ tele. ft A British “Embaesy officiql int Rome said that even though ~thel message did come. from the Jialien!! _ . chy ib was not conclusive evidence): i the missing men. had been there.; . Nevertheless, some French polios)- offitinis, after a thorough combs! ing of Paris, expressed belief thb! en ere sot-uin Paris and ana: have gone fo Taly, i - zeit cients “cu Dusaed Pa 2 former British Embassy” 3 onatd so . ha Washingios, and co jacLeun, head af the Foreign pagats3 American * ‘séctlon—know High-level British-American 80-4. gets. Sear has been expressed in . London and in Washington that they may have ducked behing the Tron Curtain, The fneident put & new sirain on British- American! Felationae’. a aN fy Statement Due Monday. f° | A Poreign Office spokesman aaid] Co, there would Hea statement on the % > . disappearance in the House of _ Commons on Monday, ‘probably: by oy Foreign Secretary Morrison.” Ee ‘The Porsign Office said the J Aig | : , Rete message was to Burgess’ + .. S Hated that Burgess, 43 and # bach- ee UL “a3 a oT (Ls 1B oer 19 1951) RS EET ie hatch Se oS ie as Rae oe ee aoa" SR, a Prot I ca cart eee Se “mother, Mra. J. R. Bassett, atid ree : al The twoomen fete London May | a ~ ees going one “ong tsireeean holiday. I, ¥ Thuredey. ae van a ' ‘Two obber messages, - to ‘ae iLean's wife arid mother, were sent jivom Parle Wednesday, ‘The letter. ibwo were reported sent by « miyste- jrious third person. The nian have! beer missing since May 28, Mac. lesn's Shth birthday. cn Messages Heid Authentic, Yesterday the Poreign Office im-| iplled all ihre messages came fromi ‘Prance. It took the view that the! telegrams were authentic, although the originals were nob in the hend- writing of Burgess or MacLean. « “The latest mewa gave rhe to a theory thet the two may have spit wp, although they left. Eng-~ Hand together. Reme police enid} they had heen unable to find any, trace of Burgess there, They: ssid they ware trying to! determine whether ! the Burgess” telegram actually was: went, By Bi. a by samieone else, ] ATU of detactives * and aligence agents. were engaged inthe hunt for Surgess and Mac- Bean, Tp bid fair to be t be the x big eat manhunt fF Rurgpean } K nislory. i Few Clues Lett, Officials here continued to ine. ist “thet therd iano reason ty spect the two of stiempling 4 Mee ta Russia. “as . hohe missing mez ‘ett few. tang! thle eines, tean-born wife Melinda said: “Had ta Jeave -unexpectedly. | Sorry, darting. DTove you. Please! do not-stop loving me. Donald.* His mother received & wire ABY>| ing mot to worry." Diplomats and ~ investigators}, theorized that either the two had) separated ox were using | tele- : grams to lay a false scent. Faute Pieced Together. © * ‘Working ‘pathstakingly over ie : rapidly cooling trail, Scotland Yard: and “‘Prance'’a Surete “heave worked out the following route: § 3 ink speedy hired car which they ghandoned in. Southampion, There they boarded an excursion steamer which took them fo the French chennel resort of St: Mato. rrney hited a taxi which took them 43 miler to Rennes where they “planed to catch * an alternoon| igain ta Paris May 26.0.5- ' There the tradi ends. * i If the two diplomats were to Sommunists. eeRE ian Sa. : MacLean’s message te his Ame Page * Times-Herald .W. 7 Wash. Post Wash. News +" N.Y. Mirror .—o Wash. Star N. ¥. COMPAS an —jurg- Date: & "061. Ryn TREE |,