Show 6 E R M V T CROSS THE n 0 r E OBOE HOLIDAY LULL IN WORLD WAR LIKELY FIRST TO BE BROKEN ON THE BALKAN FRONT guarantee guarantees demanded of central power powers by greek government gemans aur assure serbian they wll will reaped respect nationality london dispatch dispatches from the coati coat I 1 nent predict that the holiday lull will first be broken on the balkan front where greek observers obe eners ers believe the central powers are preparing a huge army for operations directed against the entente whether this will take the torna form of 0 an actual attack on Sal Salo nikl or merely an advance into greece tor for the purpose of seizing strategic defensive positions la is a matter of keen speculation in athens according to one correspond int thil greek government has definitely definite lr decided not to permit the enemies of the entente to penetrate greek territory unless the central powers satisfactorily guarantee that greek territory will not be endangered according to dispatches from a serbian source aba germans have haye established a provisional government at nish with withdrawing draIng all the bulgarian and austrian troops and ending bul garaux austrian interference Interfere ace in the ad ministration of serbian affairs it Is added that proclamations have been issued announcing that the germans will respect serbian nationality one of the moet most interesting of the reports came through athens to the effect that on friday german artillery on lake doiran abort forty miles northwest of Sali niki was shelling trench ulner 4 in greek macedonia which the alles allies are con hsuing to fortify this might easily mean that the looked tor for advance by the forces of the central powers against the allied base a at Sd doniki was t bout to begin tho montenegrin Monte official communication bailon states that the austrians vt rians are entrenching ing on a front between montenegro and serbia which british observers take to mean a pause in the active austrian campaign against the little mountain country presumably to enable the austrian forces to be turned to anore pres pressing lins matters matte on other fronts paris reported the chril alas eve eye ep operations rotations along the western estern front as not being important enough to record the german account mentioned only ining in which bich the germas blew up works which were under construction in front of their lines in the dardanelles Darda nelles the turkish guns have been busy and according to con stantin ople have done considerable execution recently against the allies trenches and lines of communication in la persia the russians are declared to have severely damaged the persian insurgents in a battle twenty five milea miles from teheran along the rus RUB front its itself elf the fighting accord ing to berlin has been limited to pa irol engagement engagements tk A quietus ban bag been put on the talk of a hugo huge german peace cam campaign alan from zurich by the departure from that town of prince von buelow and his start staff of secretaries of which much hw has been heard in tie tte entente press during the past ten days |