soldier is
made. In the many engagements in which you have taken part, you have
seen your enemies fall thick around you, and seen, too, the crimson
tide ebb from the heart of many a brave comrade, whose last good-bye
will remain for ever hallowed in your memory. You have returned
triumphant from this WAR, and though, alas! your numbers are fewer,
your hearts are as stout and your spirits as intrepid as ever. The
land which claims you as her sons has in proportion to her
capabilities given more hostages to glory than any land beneath the
sun, and well and nobly have you upheld that national renown. You have
won a name and _eclat_ that will go down through the ages, and with
the hope that countless honours are yet in store to further illumine
the aureole of your prestige,

We are yours faithfully,

CHAS. DONNELLY, _President_.
JAMES P. DONNELLY, _Hon. Treasurer_.
E. G. O'FLAHERTY, _Hon. Secretary_.

_Vice-Presidents_:

CRAWFORD LINDSAY. THOS. KELLY.
A. TRIMBLE. J. F. E. BARNES.

_Committee_:

W. P. BOWEN. C. W. KAY EVANS.
W. J. LYONS. R. S. W. BARNES.
P. O'NEILL. J. J. O'NEILL.
E. BUTLER. D. LANE.
N. F. BLACK.

XV.

ADDRESS FROM THE EUROPEAN INHABITANTS OF ADEN TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
SERGEANTS' MESS, 2ND ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS.

_To the Members of the Sergeants' Mess, 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin
Fusiliers._

We, the undersigned, take advantage of this occasion, the eve of your
departure from among us, to place on record our very high esteem of
the many sociable qualities displayed by you since your battalion
arrived in this station from South Africa in February, 1902.

Coming to Aden at a time when, after the brilliant services you had
rendered to your Sovereign and country in that uncertain field of the
reputation of battalions as well as individuals--South Africa, you
had every reason to expect a far better station, a union with those
near and dear to you, and therefore every reason to be despondent.
Instead, you threw yourselves into the social life of this place in
such a way that, before you were here many weeks, it was felt that
you, who had displayed the brilliant qualities so characteristic of
your race on many a hard-fought field in South Africa, were not
lacking in those social qualiti