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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY CHICAlib. 111., December 13. Weather forecast: Illinois Fair tonight and probably Sunday; slightly colder tonight in east portion; not so cohl Sunday afternoon. Missouri Fair tonight and probably Sunday; rising temperature Sunday and in northwest portion tonight. General, forecast Fair weather is indicated over this entire forecast district from Illinois and -Lake Michigan -westward to the Rockies tonight and Sunday. The temperature will continue low in Wisconsin and Illinois tonight, lint will rise slowly Sunday un those two; states and over the balance of the district tonight and Sunday. AVASIIINGTON. D. C. December 13. A loan of 0,000,000 is being arranged, by the war finance corporation to pay for coal confiscated by the railroad administration during the coal strike. The money will, lie used to make immediate payments to the operators who: are hampered Iieciiuso their coal has been taken and payment lias not been made. This loan is expected to tide the- small operators nver and allow them to open up their mines again. The total Vlaiins against Uie- rnilniad admihistratioii-for coal which was confiscated will amount to between 5,000,000 and 00,000,000. PARISFrancc, December 13. AS. T. "result "of .the conferences being held at Iondoii by Premiers. Lloyd George and. .Clemenceau, the American government Will lie notifil.d that, ,iu order to facilitate a compromise lietween the adverse parties in the American1 Senate the allies are wjllinx to accept, to as great an extent as possible, some of the reservations to the Versailles J realty made by tip foreign relations committee, according to the Matin. BOSTON, Mass.i December 13. A radio message received here today said the British: .steamer Messina was sinking in the North Atlantic and would require lioats. The message said it would be impossible to save her. KARLSBAD, Germany, December 13.-Four persons were killed and 102 injured in a railway wreck near Prague. Salwtage is suspected and a railway employe has been arrested.
