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Show ! HONOLULU TO BE I STRONGLY FORTIFIED j Honolulu, July 3. Secretary of War Dickinson, accompanied by act- I j ing Governor E. A. Mott-Smlth and 1 I several local army and navy officer j inspected the niillta.y posts on th.j island of Oahu ye.nerday and express- 1 ed satisfaction with th'ir condiUou. I Speaking at a bauqur-t, tendered him by the commercial bodies of this city last night, Secretary Dickinson said that the government entertained ambitious plans for the extension of the defenses of Honolulu , and contemplated con-templated a considerably Increase of tho force H the military po&t here, which would be made a permnut garrison. General Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular aiVairs who came from Washington v.ith Secretary Secre-tary Dickiuson, said In nn Interview that be was going to the Philippines to Investigate fully the charges ! which have born made in connection with the disposal of Frhir lands by I the government of the inlands, |