WASHINGTON, July 21.—The U.S. State Department tonight released the text of a message from the Consul in Rangoon, Mr Packard, to the Counsellor of Foreign Affairs, Thakin Nu. The message said:  

“I have the honour to convey to you in the name of my Government the horror with which it has learned of the brutal assassination on July 19 of U Aung San, five other members of the Council and other Government officials and to request you to be good enough to convey to the families of the deceased the sympathy of my Government in their bereavement.”  

Yesterday, the Secretary of State, Mr Marshall, called Mr Packard asking him to convey to the Governor of Burma, Sir Hubert Rance, his “profound sympathy” for the assassinations.— Reuter.