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DIPLOMATIC EFFORT TO SAVE

COMMENT

When, a few months ago, we challenged the action of the police in descending on Blake Pier and arrest-. ing thirty odd persons for loitering, in the best place for deriving the benefit of what breezes happened to blow, the protest was made in the public interest. The argument

was that in this over populated city, infested with slum tenements, we had far too few open spaces, "lungs." Apparently, though this!

fact escaped us, the police had no authority to make any round-up. Under the Pleasure Grounds and Bathing Places Regulation Ordinance, both Blake Pier and Queen's Pier

KOREA TRUCE PLAN

General Wu Getting Ready To Fly To Peking Tomorrow

New York, Dec. 17.

Jet Fighter Shot Down

Tokyo, Dec. 17.

A flight of four American jet fighters engaged four Russian-built MIG-15 jets

across

the northwest Korean border on Sunday and in the burst of fire one MIG was shot down in flames over Sinuiju. It was confirmed that the kill was credited to Lieut. Colonel Bruce Hinton,

Press,

United

Diplomatic efforts to save the Korean truce proposals were proceeding at a high pitch for a Sunday-today as General Wu Hsiu-chuan, the leader of the Peking delegation, prepared to fly back to his country within the next 48 hours.

Actually, General Wu's request to Mr Trygve Lie, the PRICE AND Secretary General of the United Nations, to make arrange- ments for his departure by air on Tuesday caused a number of United Nations diplomats to get together hurriedly to take stock of the position and see what could be done to obtain a postponement of General Wu's departure.

were defined as places of NEW ETNA

public resort, and any

person was entitled to

parade without let or hindrance.

This has now been rectified.

VIOLENCE

Police swoops on the piers EXPLODES

names

Three

So far there has been no change in General Wu's plans to leave on Tuesday.

WAGE FREEZE

Washington, Dec. 17.

A voluntary "freeze" of all prices and wages will be called

for early this week by the Unit-

ed States Economic Stabilisation Agency, officials predicted to-

day.

Having set the anti-inflation

terday's order imposing a ceiling

Hopes had not been given up, however, that the "interim report," which is to be submitted to machinery in motion with yes- the political Committee tomorrow by the three member cease-fire commission, might influence Stabilisation Agency's Adminis General Wu's mind.

of

General Wu has already dis questions-to seek priority tributed to the press the speech discussion in the Political Com- he had prepared for the Political mittes only for

the cease-fire to shelve the political Committee, but it was consider-and ed possible that if the body took questions. up the Formosan question on Monday, General Wu might at-

on new car prices, the Economic trator, Mr Alan Valentine, gave every sign that he would keep up the process.

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His next major move, officials said, would be to call for nation-wide general voluntary ceiling on prices and wages. Adherence to this standard, probably fixed at the level of December 1 or some other recent date, will be requested of busi→

and ness firms, unions.

the public.

This "freeze" will last only until March. By that time the Agency believes that it will be ready to administer an effective

on selected goods or on the (Continued on Page 8, CoL 3) whole economy.Router.

Catania, Dec. 17. thousand peasants, evacuated from villages on the slopes of Mount Etna, tonight began to lose hope of returning the home for Christmas as

They saw in General Wu's volcano exploded in a new violence after nearly a week of tend the meeting and even de-action an attempt to force the relative calm.

cide to stay on for a while. hands of the United Nations not There were no hard indica-only to take up political ques- tions from any official source, tions at the same time as the however, that General Wu had cease-fire, but also to raise the plans to har-

attend the meetings talks from a mere Lake Success

Flushing Meadow level to the Most newspapers today inter-plane of Lake Success-Washing-compulsory control system either preted General Wu's statement ton-Peking. at his press conference yester- day as a rejection of the cease- fire proposal.

Thousands of bons

of lava

were running down the north eastern side of the mountain on the bed formed by the dened lava flung out earlier by the volcano in its 22-day eruption.

of the Committee.

"NO AUTHORITY”

have been legalised by an Order of the Governor- in-Council, deleting the

of Blake

and Queen's Piers from the list of pleasure grounds. Official explanation of the action is the need for preventing people wander- ing about the piers during the day and sleeping there at night. We are no closer to agreement with Govern- ment's viewpoint than we

One tongue threatened to- were during the summer. night to cut the road linking It is difficult to believe the two villages of Milo and that the piers are so busy Rinazzo, which were evacuated that thirty or forty two weeks ago. But the local

authorities said that there was It was pointed out in official strollers represent serious for the moment no danger to circles connected with the cease- interference. We do know the two hamlets.

fire talks, however, that from that the Colony has a The volcano, the biggest in the outset General Wu had said had no authority to population three times Europe, hurled vast masses of that he

and cease-fire talks lava down its slopes during the carry on greater than 1936, the first two weeks

statement therefore his of its erup- that, date of the Ordinance, tion, imminently threatening the need not necessarily mean a and for that reason two villages.

Peking rejection of the principle

for claims

After engulfing 15 outlying of a cease-fire.. breathing

What General Wu had attacked cottages the eruption changed spaces demand increased in nature, continuing to fling was in his own words, "the pro-

and steam into posal of 'cease-fire respect.

flaming ashes What do we get? Alienation the air but producing little Korea, a proposal which met the

lava,

approval of Mr Austin." of Statue Square to pro-

Experts of the Etna Volcano- General Wu had put the words vide a car park, elimina- logical Institute said it was "cease-fire first" within quotes tion of two piers, and, impossible to judge whether in above all, instead of pro-

this was

.

first'

in

his statement. Observers "a last fling" or said that General Wu was clearly over- assailing the decision of the

viding adequate lighting whether the flow would

run the line where the old Asian group to split up its

in the Botanical Gardens, lava stopped-only a few hun- original composite resolution Milo and into two: cease-fire and dis- that one pleasing facilitydred yards from

cussion of the Far Eastern in the city zone is closed Rinazzo-Reuter. at dusk.

The allegation that a few

persons were consorting there with women of the street had some warrant. But surely the answer was not to close the gar- dens at just the time. when decent people could

be free to stroll through

H.K. Not Included In

Blocked Area

Washington, Dec. 17.

Hongkong was not included as a "blocked area” in the park, but to take yesterday's order freezing all Communist Chinese assets steps to prevent in- in the United States, Treasury officials said today.

Chinese nationals living in decency. The gardens, But any person acting as an plus the new pier Order, agent or "front" for Communist Hongkong would not be subject suggest that the time has Chinese interests would be sub-to the blocking order, an official said. But a close examination come for Government to ject to the control, it was stated. would be made of all individual submit their policy to re- The same was true for anyone business transactions with the examination.

living in any part of the world. British colony-Reuter

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