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$1 minimum outside Lower Mainland http:www.vancouversun.com Thursday, September 1997 60 cents retail 75 cents coin box Prince William will walk behind his mother's coffin Mama's ffumeral route tripled a 6 Million expected to Mme streets 7 thank God for the gift of Diana and for all her loving and giving. I give her back to Him, with Sill my love, pride and admiration to rest in peace. Royal family breaks silence after stoicism upsets public Diana 's mother, Frances Shand Kydd WILLIAM MONTALBANO DEATH WARREN HOGE IP PRINCES Los Angeles Times with Canadian Press LONDON Bowing to pressure from the people, police and the British government, Buckingham Palace on Wednesday agreed to more than triple the route for the funeral cortege Saturday of Diana, Princess of Wales. Police say Saturday morning's funeral may draw as many as six million people in the largest public display that London has ever seen. Diana's 15-year-old son, Prince William, will lead the procession, walking behind his mother's horse-drawn coffin, British sources say.

He will be accompanied by his father, Prince Charles, and by Diana's brother, Charles, Earl Spencer. About 500 mourners from 100 charities to which Diana lent her name are expected to follow. Charles will fly to London with his sons Friday night, the palace said, so that they can spend some time with their mother's body. Queen Elizabeth, her husband Prince Philip and the 97-year-old Queen Mother will make an overnight journey on the Royal Train, arriving Saturday morning for the funeral. Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, flew from her home on Scotland's Isle of mm In defence of the Royals: Barbara Yaffe A3 Recalling the kindness of a princess A 10 Diana bares her heart in her favorite photograph All Taming the tabloids: Editorial A14 More of your letters A14 New York Times News Service LONDON Breaking its silence on the astonishing outpouring of grief over the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the British Royal Family said Wednesday that it was "deeply touched and enormously grateful." In a statement on a day when it was forced to amplify plans for Saturday's funeral to meet a new estimate of six million mourners, Buckingham Palace said: "All the Royal Family, especially the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry are taking strength from the overwhelming support of the public who are sharing their tremendous sense of loss and grief." It was the first word from the family since a brief communique on Sunday expressing shock over the death of Diana in a car crash in Paris earlier that day and seemed to represent recognition of how remarkable the swelling expression of national sorrow has become.

As Britons continued to demonstrate unaccustomedly raw emotion, there had been some criticism of the Royal Family for keeping such a tight rein on its feelings. "If only the Royals dared weep with the people," ran the headline over Wednesday morning's editorial in The Independent Ronald Allison, the Queen's former press secretary, said Wednesday night that the family was devastated by the death even though there had been little word from them. "It is my belief that they do share that grief and that sorrow, that they are dealing with it in their own way, which may not be our way," he said. No one seems more astonished at the British reaction than the British themselves. "This week the cliche no longer fits," wrote Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian.

"Britons are not hiding their feelings but pouring them out for all to see." It is clear from the makeup of the mourners that Diana's appeal cut across class, religious and racial lines. Please see Reaction, A2 Seil on Wednesday to London. In a statement to the Press Associa- elude dignitaries, tion, she said: "I thank God for the gift But it promises to be less stacked of Diana and for all her loving and than usual with the politicians and giving. I give her back to Him, with my royalty generally invited to the funer- love, pride and admiration to rest in als of major figures. It is not a state fu- peace." neral, so the usual protocol does not The list of 2,000 people to be invit- apply.

'1 RUSSELL CLISBYfieuter FRANCES SHAND KYDD, mother of the Princess of Wales, arrives at Heathrow Airport on Wednesday after flying from Scotland for her daughter's funeral. ed to the funeral certainly will in- Please see Gun carriage, A2 WEATHER Paparazzi 'pushed officer away from crash5 JEFFREY ULBRICH case, told The Associated Press. Another photographer, one of the first on the scene, said he opened the car door hopmg to help. On course You'll be pleased to know everything is right on track clouds and a chance of showers over the next few days, just as the weekend nears. High of 21.

Full details, B2 Lotteries, A2 "I saw the princess sitting on the floor, her back to me," Ro- muald Rat told France-2 television. Associated Press PARIS Picture-hungry paparazzi pushed away the first police officer to rush to the scene of Diana's car wreck, police were quoted as saying Wednesday. But the photographers protested they are being turned into scapegoats for the death of the Princess of Wales. "There is enormous government and public pressure," Jacques Langevin, a photographer being investigated in the "I said in English to stay calm, that I was there, that help would arrive. Doctors later said she was unconscious.

But now, Rat's boss said, "a total injustice" is being done to Please see Photographers, A2 INDEX B7 Mason Fl Movies C5 Nation Provinces A3 I i JiA Births Deaths Bridge Business Calendar City Limits Classified Comics Maverick columnist to retire, still angry V''7 it E6 Dl CI 015 E1.F1 D14 D15, E4 A14 B2 015 D14 C8 A14 A2 Palmer Parry Planning Ahead Restaurants Richler Sports TV Theatres Weather World Yaffe A14 B8 C7 C6 A15 Fl C8 C4 B2 A10 A3 DENE MOORE Crossword Editorials Ferry Schedule Horoscope Kids' Page Landers Letters Lotteries -j Vancouver Sun Controversial columnist Doug Collins announced his retirement Wednesday in a biting column that criticized the Canadian Jewish Congress, the B.C. Human Rights commis Fatal Via Rail crash leads to investigation of Vancouver yard JANET STEFFENHAGEN Vancouver Sun with Canadian Press Federal transportation officials were investigating maintenance at Via Rail's Vancouver yard Wednesday following the early morning derailment of a passenger train near Biggar, according to senior union officials. The accident killed one woman and injured 65 other passengers when the train's two locomotives and 13 of its 19 cars derailed on a section of track that had just passed a CN safety inspection. Maintenance of Via Rail's three weekly trains is done in the Vancouver yards. Union officials said investigators from the National Transportation Agency were interviewing staff about maintenance procedures.

Please see Union official, AS Reader Sales and Service 24-Hour automated service 605-7381 Outside the Lower Mainland 1-800-663-2662 Fax 605-2200 Classified 605-7355 sion, and the media. The North Shore News columnist has been involved in a heated and emotional human rights tribunal hearing concerning the province's anti-hate speech laws, but in a telephone interview Wednesday night, he denied pressure either from the Canadian Jewish Congress or resulting from the hearing had forced his decision. "It had nothing to do with that. All things come to an end, good, bad and indifferent" Calling the tribunal the Gestapo, la FOUNDED 1886 64 PAGES VOL.112 No. 99 DOUG COLLINS belling the Canadian Jewish Congress "censors and bigots" and comparing his human rights hearing to the Inquisition, Collins wrote Wednesday that his last regular column in the Please see Collins' retirement, A8 GREG PENDERSaskatoon Star Phoenn DERAILED: A Via passenger train lies alongside tracks after an accident in which one person died on Wednesday.

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