Show GERMANS TO CHOSS THE GREEK BORDER HOLIDAY LULL IN WORLD WAR LIKELY FIRST TO BE BROKEN ON THE BALKAN FRONT guarantees demanded of central powers power by gre greek ek government k germans assure Ser serbians Serb ians blans they W will 11 1 respect nationality lalon glaudon dispatches from the continent predict that the holiday lull will first be broken on tho the balkan front where greek observers believe the central powers are pre preparing a huge army for or operations directed against tho the entente whether this will take the form ot of nn an actual attack on or werely merely nn an advance into greece tor for tho the purpose of seizing strategic defensive positions Is ft a matter of keen speculation in athens athena according to one correspondent the greek government has danni definitely tely d decided e not to permit the enemies of tho the entente to penetrate greek territory unless tho the central powers satisfactorily guarantee that greek territory will not bo be endangered according to dispatches from a serbian source tho the germans have established a provisional government at nish withdrawing all tho the bulgarian anil and austrian troops and ending but bill garlan earlan austrian interference in tho the administration of serbian affairs it la Is added that proclamations have been issued announcing that tho the germans will respect serbian nationality ono of the most interesting of 0 tho the reports came through athons athens to ahe tho effect that on friday german artillery on lake doiran about forty miles northwest of Sall niki was shelling the anglo french lines la in greek Mace macedonia doula which tho the allies are continuing to fortify this might easily mean that tho the looked for advance by the tha forces of the tha central powers against tho the allied base at Sal was about to begin tho the montenegrin official eom communication munt states that tho the austrians Aust lana rians are entrenching ing on a front between montenegro and serbia which british ob servers tako to mean a pause in tho the active austrian campaign against the little mountain country presumably to enable the austrian forces to be turned to moro more pressing matters on other fronts parts parla reported tho the christmas eye operations along tho the western front as not being important enough to record tho the german account mentioned only mining operations in which the gormas germas blew up works which cerii andr construction in fit front of their lines in tho the dardanelles Darda nelles the turkish guns guna have been busy and according to constantinople stantin ople havo have dono done considerable execution recently against tho the allies trenches and lines qt of communication in persia the tha russians aro are declared to have so severely verely damaged the persian insurgents in a battle twenty alve rive miles from teheran along the front itself tho the fighting according to berlin has been limited to patrol engagements A quietus has haa been put on the talk of A huge german peace campaign from zurich by the departure from that town of prince yon von buelow and his staff of secretaries of which much has boon been heard in tho the entente press presa during the past tow few days |