A UNIQUE DISCOVERY.
NEW YORK, Auguet 25. Excavations at Fort Hancock (New Jersey) revealed a vault containing the bodies of 14 British naval officers. The men were frozen to death in 1783. j They !iad drifted ashore after chasing deserters. The United States Government is arranging, for their reinterment at Cypress Hill, Brooklyn.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 27
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53A UNIQUE DISCOVERY. Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 27
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