"Lord Vernon is suffering with a
very severe attack of influenza, which
has been developing for some days, and
which has, at last, become so serious that
his physicians have commanded a complete
rest for a week or ten days. One
may well conceive Lord Vernon's reluctance
to heed this advice, but he has
very wisely decided to do so. The little
seaside resort of Weet-sur-Mer, on the
Dutch coast, has been selected as the
place for his sojourn, and he will be
taken there to-morrow on H. M. S.
_Dauntless_. Sir John Scaddam, his
physician, and two of his secretaries,
Mr. Arthur Collins and Mr. George
Blake, will accompany him, although
work of any kind has been absolutely
forbidden him for at least a week. It is
believed that the bracing atmosphere of
Weet-sur-Mer will effect a cure in that
time.

"Weet-sur-Mer is comparatively little
known, at least in England. It is really
the old Dutch fishing-village of Weet-zurlindenhofen;
but a number of years
ago it was exploited as a watering-place
and re-christened Weet-sur-Mer by