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Show ORDER MARINES TO PRO- CEED TO 8ANTO DOMINGO Now York, Sopt 26. A force of 750 marines will sail on Friday from Philadelphia on ttho rtansport Pralrio Mr Santo Domingo to protect the American customhouse thore. Th's dec's on was reached today by Pre 'dent Taft at a conference with Heck-man Heck-man Wlnthrop, assistant secietary or the navy, on the president's tra'n en route from Washington to New York. Tho marines will bo sent to Santi Domingo as a precautionary measure. The' rebels have been active 8 nco the assassination of the president of Haytl In August, but so far have refrained re-frained from molesting the customhouse custom-house Tho marines will bo drawn fro-n tho Atlantic coast stations. The tl'-trlbutlon tl'-trlbutlon of tho forco will be supervised super-vised by Drlgadler General Fran); Mc-Intyro Mc-Intyro of tho Insular bureau of tho war department, and W. T. Doyle, chief of tho Latln-Amerlcnn bureau of tho department of state, who will nccompany tho detachment on the Pralrio. Tho situation growing out of the revolution In Santo Domingo has been regarded as serious for some time, but a declslvo action was not considered by tho government until complaints by cablo companies of Interference In-terference with Its lines showed that rebels were gaining In strength. |