ROYAL VISIT TO PRANCE
CEREMONY AT YILLERSBRETONNEUX elaborate precautions for SAFETY LONDON, June 21. Elaborate precautions are being taken to ensure the safety of the King and Queen on the occasion of the unveiling of the Australian war Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
. Each of the thousands attending the ceremony will be subjected to the closest examination. The French police will demand two photographs of each, and a complete guarantee of unimpeachable character. Thirty-five hundred guest? and others must be seated at the memorial two hours before the arrival of Their Majesties, after winch ‘hey will not be allowed to move Waile the police scour the countryside. Eleven thousand troops will pe posted shoulder to shoulder, fachig both ways for two miles from J«e Villers-Bretonneux station to me memorial. The police are doing their utmost ‘0 check up on every arrival in the registers are being watched, and persons not satisfying investigation are being arrested immediately.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22435, 23 June 1938, Page 11
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