§ MR. CHARLES CRAIG (Antrim, S.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the fact that the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, after losing nearly 400 men and twenty officers in killed and wounded in the late war, were sent from South Africa to Aden, where they have now been for two summers; and whether, in view of the trying character of this station, he will state why the War Office sent a regiment which has rendered the country such services to such a station, and when will the regiment be relieved.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) This battalion has been temporarily detained at Aden owing to certain military exigencies which have not yet ceased. It is not yet possible to state when the battalion can be relieved.