tat Nov.
THoucH it is our German fellow-residents who are most directly interested in this morning's ceremony, we are all glad to add our tribute of homage to the memory of the brave men who met their death so heroically on the 28rd of July, 1896. Brave men are citizens of the world, and the world as represented here hastens to lay at the foot of their monument, its memorial wreaths. The courage with which the officers and crew of Iltis faced their fate when they saw that it was inevitable does not' need to keep its memory fresh the monument that is to be' unveiled to-day, but there is a natural desire in the human heart to commemorate in some permanent form the great events in national history. It isa happy chance that~ enables the Sailor Prince, Henry of Prussia, to be here to-day to unveil this monument. It is right that German sailors should have the chief place in the ceremony; it is also right that men-of-war's men of other nationalities should assist, for, as Lord Charles Beresford' said the other day, "after all, seamen of all nations are brothers." Here we are all especially united, standing as we do asa small band of foreigners amid a vast nation of Asiatics; and in handing over this most appropriate memorial to the care of our cosmopolitan Municipal Council, its projectors may rely on its being guarded with faithful care as long as the admiration of heroism exists, as long as great deeds have power to strike responsive chord in our hearts, without the transient distinction of nationality.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.