THE HULL DAILY PACKET
Tue 13 Apr 1880

It has come within our knowledge that our leaderette of yesterday concerning Lieutenant-Colonel SANER was presumed to have passed the bounds of fair criticism. Since an explanation seems to be required, we have only to say that the writer of the article has no personal knowledge whatever of Lieutenant-Colonel SANER, and was simply guided in his observations by circumstances described in the public Press and by what he conceived to be a journalist’s duty in commenting on a matter of public importance – to wit, the Volunteer Service of this country. Unwittingly and unintentionally he appears to have exceeded what, in Hull, are considered the limits of fair comment; and we therefore feel bound to express our regrets at these extreme utterances, and to tender to Lieutenant-Colonel SANER our unconditional apologies for the wrong which he is alleged to have sustained.