The
Hague, 23 August. The Dutch newspaper Avondbode supplied some tidings
dealing with the situation in the Dutch East Indies.
According to this newspaper arrived 28 January at Rio the Dutch corvette Zr.
Ms. Kastor and the colonial schooner Krokodil ordered to patrol against the
pirates in the waters of Lima.
The iron steamboat Etna that served very well was to be armed within short time
to cruise just like the Hekla against the pirates along the North
East coast of Java. Mr. Bennett, engineer of the Nederlandsche
Stoomboot Maatschappij at Rotterdam who assisted
by sending both iron ships to the Indies and assembling them there returned to
the Netherlands.
