EXPO 67 Tight Security For Royal Visit

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31412, 4 July 1967, Page 14

EXPO 67 Tight Security For Royal Visit

(N .Z .F.A.-Reuter-r-Copyright)

MONTREAL, July 3.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will arrive in Montreal today for a whirlwind sixhour visit to Expo 67 under the strictest security precautions yet undertaken at the world’s fair.

They will arrive at the fair aboard the Royal yacht Britannia after an overnight journey down the St. Lawrence river from Cornwall, Ontario.

Frogmen searched the hull of the Britainnia for bombs

yesterday before the Queen and Duke sailed.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have virtually taken over the pavilions on the Royal party’s itinerary.

Security arrangements were begun a long time ago, but have been carried out intensively only for the last couple of weeks. All arrangements were left to the “Mounties.”

The public will be excluded from the upstream end of Notre Dame Island, where the Britannia will dock.

About 10,000 people are nevertheless expected to jam into the cordoned-off area, mostly pavilion staff, their specially-invited guests, a massive police contingent, and press, radio and television staff.'

Each pavilion to be visited will permit its staff to see the Royal couple, and has allowed each staff member to bring one guest who has been given a security clearance in advance.

Pavilions which will be in the cordoned-off zone but which will not be visited by the Queen include those of France, Jugoslavia, Greece, Jamaica, Mauritius, Monaco and Haiti.

The strong security arrangements are a protection against any repetition of the French-Canadian separatist demonstrations which flared up during the last Royal visit to Quebec in 1964.