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Show U. S, TAKES HOLD IH SANTODOMINGO MILITARY RULE PROCLAIMED TO SUPPRESS POLITICAL CHAOS I IN LITTLE REPUBLIC. American Marines Will Maintain On der and Americans Will Supervise the Conduct of Government by Native Officials. Washington. Military rule has been proclaimed in Santo Domingo by the United States navy to suppress existing political chaos in the little republic re-public and pave the way for guaranteeing guaran-teeing future quiet by establishing there such a financial and police protectorate pro-tectorate as the American government govern-ment now exercises over Haiti. Eighteen hundred American marines ma-rines will maintain order for the present, pres-ent, and at least until elections are held in January their officers will supervise su-pervise the conduct of government by native officials and disburse the customs cus-toms revenues which American receivers receiv-ers have been collecting by treaty arrangement ar-rangement for nine years. The navy .proclamation, issued Thursday, apparently has been put into effect without bloodshed. The necessity for a drastic step has been considered since the overthrow, several months ago, of President Jiminez by General Arias, a strongly anti-American revolutionist. With Arias in control, the Dominican assembly as-sembly elected Frederico Enrlquez president, but the United States refused re-fused to recognize the new government govern-ment and withheld the balance of customs cus-toms revenues left after the regular payments of interest on the foreign debt. |