TOKYO: General Matthew Ridgway, United Nations Supreme Commander, was expected to say `yes` to Communist cease-fire proposals very soon thoughhe had stillnotissued a formal answer by midnight... . His advisers were understood to be still conferring with Washington on details of the fourth move towards halting the three-year-old Korean fighting. Yesterday [July 1] the Communists suggested a cease-ñre conference at the bomb-levelled town of Kaesong in the only Communist-held territory south of the 38th Parallel.

General Ridgway ... nine days ago had suggested a meeting in the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia at Wonsan harbour, 90 miles north of the Parallel. The general impression ... was that Kaesong would be acceptable as a meeting place.

The chief difficulties would be communications and ensuring the area was clear of mines. Kaesong razed to the ground in the .

battles along the Parallel was almost the first town captured by the Communists when they swept south a year and a week ago. [UN] officers ... made a close study of the wording of the Communist reply to General Ridgway`s cease-fire broadcasts. News agencies