Show TOES WAG NA ON REMOVAl Connection Between Sea Lords Lord's Fall and Recent Seen By fly United Press LONDON Dec 29 Great Great specula- specula ti n was aroused here today as to the possible connection between the re retirement retirement re- re of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe as first lord of the admiralty and last Saturdays Saturday's sinking of three British destroyers destroyers de do- announced by the admiralty today The three tilt British sea wasps were sunk off the Dutch coast by torpedoes of- of o- o mines A dispatch rom The Hague l late te today reported they were attacked by German naval craft but this was not confirmed There has lias been an epidemic of sink sink- ings lags of British destroyers recently and ana under circumstances which have aroused a great deal of criticism of or orthe the admiralty and of the sea lord Early in the fall two destroyers were sunk in the North sea and more than thana a dozen merchantmen they convoyed were destroyed by German raiding de de- de- de Then came the recent similar episode epi episode epi- epi sode in the channel when one British destroyer was sunk and another damaged damaged dam dam- aged with several more merchantmen merchant merchant- men sunk also by German craft There were rumors tonight of forthcoming forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming shifts in the adI ad ad- I |