A Reuter telegram from St. Jean de Luz, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, says that there is no news in that part of France of Mr. Esmond Romilly, nephew of Mr. Winston Churchill, and Miss Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale.
The Foreign Office, it is announced in London, has asked British consular officials at Bilbao and Bordeaux to try to discover their whereabouts. The British Vice-Consul in Bayonne has been making inquiries for a week regarding the whereabouts of the young people, as they are thought to have been in Bordeaux and Bayonne, and it is thought that it may be their intention to go to Bilbao. It would be most difficult for them to cross the frontier into Spain since the embargo on volunteers came into force.
Should they contemplate marriage, as is suggested in London might be the case, it would be impossible for them to marry in France, as they would have to fill in a form to show they had each been domiciled in France for a certain length of time. The only boat which left St. Jean de Luz for Bilbao last week was the British steamer Blackhill, which sailed on Thursday.
In Bordeaux, too, there is no knowledge of their whereabouts. Both Mr. Romilly and Miss Freeman-Mitford are under age.
Esmond Romilly left Wellington College three years ago, and reappeared in London to edit a students' anti-war magazine, "Out of Bounds." Last year he went to Spain to fight for the Government in the International Brigade. When he returned to London last month for a short holiday he declined to give any information about how he reached Spain. He said he was going back to Spain.
