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Show Hawaii Will Join Dry States to Cut Off Soldier Supply Illicit Sales Cause Army Officer Of-ficer to Send Request to Washington. ' By Associated frees. HONOLULU, June . Hawan Is expected In the Immediate future to Join the list of states and territories ter-ritories In the "dry" column, according ac-cording to statements today by federal and territorial authorities. Brigadier General Frederick H. fttmng, commander of the Hawaiian Ha-waiian department, 17. B. A., has cabled to the war department at Washington, asking that the sal of liquor on the island of Oahu be prohibited! on the ground that Illicit sales are being made to soldiers sol-diers and sailors ,ln uniform. In , contravention of the provisions of the selective draft act. Today he received a cablegram from the war department stating that regulations regula-tions were being drawn up In Washington covering the situation. Honolulu already is virtually under military law, so far as the i- - -i' -' cerned. Already many arrests of civilians accused of such galea have been made. |