REPLY TO "PETER PETERSEN."
(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) T Sib,—la you issue of Saturday^agt there appears a letter signed "Feter Peterson," in which the writer attacks the endeavors lately made by the Naval Brigade to find the bodies of the men lost. The writer thereof, with peculiar malicious spleen, asserts that a small boat.and one man was sent off from the gun boat and afterwards deserted, and we did not search, the mud flats. As to such statements I may state that I was sent from the gun boat with instructions to search the flat in the vicinity of the Two Friends* fishing boat. Such having been done, I afterwards pulled off to the fishing boat, and shortly afterwards was called forby the gun boat, after which the gun boat sailed miles away, and to such a distance that made it impossible for Petersen to see whether we sent a boat ashore or otherwise. The writer's assertion is a fabrication, and the signature is the tool of those who concocted and wrote the letter, and let such dirty actions reap that benefit they deserve ; but such is the thanks our officers and men get for their endeavors to be of use to the public—Yours obediently, ChAEIiES EVBEIITT.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2967, 19 August 1878, Page 2
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210REPLY TO "PETER PETERSEN." Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2967, 19 August 1878, Page 2
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