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o ,* i rye Third DRAMA IN THAT GETAWAY SHIP DID I SEE THE TH. Express Staff Reporter Man — the British official in Washington who tipped off Maclean and. Burgess that they were tinder suspicion— may have been in the ship with them when they fled. One of the 200 passengers in the steamer Falaisé crossing that night of May 26, 1951, from Southamnton ta St, Malo was Mr. Wiliam John Lyons, a London importer. He said last night: “ The ship “wag due to sail at 10 pm. Just three minutes. before that time two men. I now know to have been Maclean. end Burgess boarded the ship. “T turned to a man next to * aman in an Anthony Eden ha j and a raincoat, and I said: if word, they aré cutting ine man looked at me wit an expression which plaink | said ‘What business is 16 o! WILLIAM LYONS TI remember .. - yours?’ Then as Maclean and Burgess reached the top. of the gangway he stepped forward and greeted them. “This man wag 6ft. 6ft, tall, clean-shaven. lin, o sallo complexioned, He spoke softh ‘bucketing with RD MAN: and-as far as i could judge he was English.” At &t. Malo, said Mr. Lyons: |-* > + “came the incident which made me teniember all this. “We arrived at about 9.30 in the morming and it was simply vain, AML the passengers thought it was ont of the question ta go ashore— except. Maclean. and Burgess and the other man, “Just. as s00n ag the gangway was placed they went ashore, petting soaked, ‘Then I noticed an odd thing. . “There was only one taxt-a | very dice, new. black jJob-—which - drove up, eireled about, and waited aft of the ship—-instead of on the rank opposite the Bane ways “The three men got into 4 taxi, anid off it. shot.” That was the last that was ' seen. af Maclean and Burgess, And The Third Man? Some people think they saw fim in the ship back to Southampton that night,