A special account to the London Daily Mail says that the survivors of the Aden reached Plymouth on the 14th of July, on board the P. and 0, s.s. India. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Ponrce, their infant, and its amah; Mr. and Mrs, Gillett and their seven-year-old daughter Mr. Valpy, Mr. Kelt, the fourth engineer, and Mr, Cave, the steward. The Gillett family and Mr. Valpy proceeded in the vessel to London, while Mr. Pearce and his family went on to Paddington by train, The meeting between the survivors and their friends and relatives, who had gone out ona tender to meet them, was touching in the extreme. Among those on the tender were Mr. E. C. Peatce, the father of Mr. Pearce, and the latter's sisters. As they came alongside the liner, handkerchiefs were fla gk and shouts of greeting exchange Mr. Pearce leaned over the taffrail and.cried out to his father and sisters, "All right, thank God!" and then tears of relief were freely shed.
The survivors still showed signs of their awful experiences. Mr. Gillett limped from a wound in his foot; Mr. Pearce, who has been an athlete, and was the head of the rowing club at Shanghai, a yachtsman and a man of sport, tooked quite wreck, although he is yet on the right side of fon. He tottered os he walked, and seemed ready to collapse. All. were obviously very weak yet, Little Miss Gillett
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