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Show PEACE OR WAR NAY 15 Germany to Be Forced to Accept or Reject Terms. DATE IS FIXED United States May Take j Control of Constantinople. Con-stantinople. (By the Associated Press) Germany will be forced either to accept ac-cept or reject the Allied peace terms I by May 15, according to reports print ed in Pans and it is indicated that no , reply ia expected before May 6. The refusal of Stephen Pichon, the 1 French foreign minister, to divulge the details of the provisions of the proposed pro-posed treaty while speaking in the chamber of deputies yesterday, and the failure of Premier Lloyd George to speak in more than general terms before be-fore the house of commons, indicates , that no intimation of the terms will be made public at present. Drafting Committee Busy ' It was announced at a meeting of the council of ten in Paris yesterday '-lfternoon that various articles of the pact now are In the hands of the drafting draft-ing committee and that the remaining articles would be disposed of today. Norway and Switzerland will act as agents of the Allied and associated governments In feeding Russia, it has been agreed at Paris. Representatives of France hnve made reservations on the subject and these will be considered consider-ed today. The plan Is opposed by Russian Rus-sian elements opposed to the Bolsheviki, Bolshe-viki, but it Is said to be probable they will ultimately acquiesce in the Allied decision. The question of the United States becoming mandatory for Armenia and the ancient province of Cecilia, to tho southwest, is again being considered at the peace conference. There seems i to be a disposition on the part of sev-leral sev-leral of the Entente powers also to ask this country to take over control of Constantinople, a suggestion which is said to appeal to some members of the American commission. j Albania has appealed to Premier Clemenceau, as president of the peace1 conference, asking for confirmation of; the complete independence of that' country. Here, too, there is a willingness willing-ness that the United States should assume control of governmental af- ' fairs, at least until the little country; has organized its political system. The communists are still In control of Munich, but heavy forces of Bavarian Bavar-ian troops have begun an advance on the Bavarian capital, according to Berlin Ber-lin advices. It Is not known, however,1 whether a decisive battle has as yet been fought. Disorders in Punjab. SIMLA, India Tuesday, April 15. Aii planes -were used today in coping with the disorders in the Punjab A mob attacked a passenger train in this district and wrecked the railway station at Gujranwala. Airplanes were sent from Lahore and the mob was bombed and subjected to much gunfire gun-fire from the air. Considerable unrest still exists in Delhi and Lahore. The commissioner I for the district has appealed to the leading men to use their influence for the reopenin? of the shops Other-tflae, Other-tflae, he announced, the authorities would take action. Trouble In Turkey. LONDON. April 17. It is learned here that the situation in Turkey ig I causing great arixiet. Internal disorder dis-order is rife, according to reports from Rear Admiral Webb, R. N , at Con stantlnople. It is leared there will shortly be outbreaks and massacres of the Armenian population on a large I scale. The situation at Smyrna, where "he i Turks and Greeks are eady to sprint; at each other's throats, is typical of the situation throughout Turkey. Bands of brigands are dominating the country, even within a few miles of Constantinople, and are committing atrocious murders. The committee of Union and Proi;-1 Proi;-1 ress, the- Young Turk organization I which wa; driven from power in Con-i Con-i stantlnople as a result of the allied victory, Is reported to be secretly conducting con-ducting an energetic re-organlz;nion movement. Socialists Enter Protest. PARIS. April 17. (Havas.) Albert Al-bert Bedouce, Socialist member of the chamber of deputies from the upper I Garonne, is reported by Le Journal to ha proposed to his Socialist colleagues col-leagues that they resign in a bodv as a protest agains! the attitude of the government in declining to outline to j the parliament the details of the peace 'preliminaries until the treaty has been I signed. The Socialist groups in the j chamber of deputies will take up the I question inday foi decision, it is added. The question of confidence in the government came up in the chamber of deputies Wednesday on the question ques-tion instanced in the foregoing dispatch dis-patch and tho government was sustained sus-tained by a vote of 334 to 1G6. the chamber defeating also a demand for a secret sitting by 341 to 158 Munich Seeking Loan. BERLIN, Wednesday, April 16 (By Phc Associated Press.) The communist commun-ist government in Munich is reported to h ive opened negotiations with Italy by which valuable woodlands belonging belong-ing to Munich would be pledged for a loan of one billion mark with which to buy food. Late in March the former Bavarian government of Premier Hott'mann and tho Italian government were reported io be negotiating in regard to the delivery de-livery of food to Bavaria. Apparent- ly the communist government is at- J tempting to re-open these negotiation i |