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Show LOOK FOR ATTACK Nov nanus! Troops of buellito Uting Witli Revolutionists in Santo Domingo. PUERTO PLATA BESIEGED COMBINED FORCES Decisive Engagement Expe ;ti 1 at Any Time; Morales Is Still in Hiding. CAPE 11 A YT1 EN. Httvti, Jan 2.-A revolutionary force Of Dominicans num-trrlnK num-trrlnK about 2.-.0 men Is. ac5drdlhg to a dispatch received by messenger today. camped on the San Dlago-Puerto Plata road. Santo Domingo, and Is besieging Puerto Plata. The revolutionist.!, it Is added, occupy positions which prevent all I Ingress or eKress except for American warships or persons under the protection of th.- foreign consuls. The thn stent d bombardment of ne rort bv th. revolutionary gunboat inae-pendencls inae-pendencls will not take pises, presum- j ably owing to the representations of the fi. reign Consuls Two Forces Combined. The messenger from Santo Domingo also announces that the. troops command- ! ed hv Oen. Guelllto. the former Governor ,,r Monte Christ!, are operating in conjunction con-junction with the revolutionary forces bc-fon bc-fon Puerto Plata, and that R Is the In- ', tentlon f the two forces to attack Santiago Santi-ago south f Puerto Plata- where Gen. I Caceras. the temporary President of thn Republic is drawing up bis troops. A decisive engagement Is expected to occur al Santiago. Acting With Jiminez According to the reports which reached Cape HuMlen. Morale, th. fugitive President Presi-dent of Santo Domingo, is acting In the Intercut of Gen tirnlnez. the former President of the Republic, whose attempt t. regain th. Presidency M MM sras defeated de-feated Expect to Captuie Morales. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 An official cablegram, dated December 30. from San Doming", -tat. that Moral.:". I wl'nln ' twenty miles ol Santo Domingo, without t,,r,-, thai th.- Dominican Congress Is ubout to Impeach him. and that his cap- I lure Is . xpected. The United States customs cus-toms ser ice I not interfered with |