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Show Tim Awful Climate of Aden. A letter which recently appeared In the Morning Post of Delhi throws a lurid light upon the effects of the cllmnte at Aden. The term of service nt Aden for the Indian departments has hitherto been two years; but the Indian Inspector-General of Ordnance has lately reduced the term to one year for his department. This Is said to be due to the constant breaklug down In health of men employed at Aden, and the consequent heavy charges to the Government for Invaliding them aad their families. The object of tho letter let-ter above referred to Is to suggest that what Is sauce for the Indian department depart-ment Is also sauce for other branches of the service, and he mentions Incidentally Inci-dentally that no less than thirteen families fam-ilies of the Hampshire regiment hnd to bo Invalided homo from Aden within with-in three months of their arrival there. Another Interesting fact, mentioned on the authority of a royal engineer olll-ccr, olll-ccr, Is that the climate of Aden causes "Iron nnd bricks to crumble away In n short space of time," from which the Inference Is that humnu constitutions composed of any more perlshnble material ma-terial than Iron nnd brick must crumble nway In n still shorter period. It would bo a very good thing If tho term of service nt Aden for all nrms aud departments were reduced to twelve or, nt the outside, eighteen' months. This, by tho way, Is the station sta-tion to which the Second Itoyal Dublin Fusilier were despatched to recuperate recuper-ate after the hardships of their service in South Africa, and, lu spite of protests pro-tests from all directions, tho Government Govern-ment still persists !u keeplug them there. Truth. |