Show GREEK HOLIDAY LULL IN WORLD WAR LIKELY FIRST TO BE BROKEN ON THE BALKAN FRONT guarantees demanded of central powers by greek government germans assure serbians Serb ians they will respect nationality london dispatches from the centt nent predict that the holiday lull will first be broken on the balkan front where greek observers believe the central powers are preparing a huge army for operations directed against the entente whether this will take the lona ot an actual attack on kalonika Sal or merely an advance into greece for the purpose of seizing strategic defensive positions Is a matter of keen speculation in athens according 10 one correspondent the greek government has definitely decided not to permit the enemies of the entente to penetrate greek territory unless the central powers uy guarantee that greek territory will not be endangered according to dispatches from a serbian source the germans have established a provisional government at elsh withdrawing all the bulgarian and austrian troops and ending bul garian austrian interference in the ad ministration ot serbian affairs it is added that proclamations have been issued announcing that the germans will respect serbian nationality ong ol 01 the most interesting of the reports came through athens to the effect that on friday german artillery on lake dobran about forty miles northwest north west of was shelling the anglo french lines in greek macedonia which the allies are con tinning to fortify this might easily mean that the looked tor advance by the forces of the central powers against the allied base at was about to begin tho montenegrin official cation states that the austrians Aust rians are entrenching ing on a front between mon benegro and serbia which british ob gervers take to janean a pause in the active austrian campaign against the little mountain country presumably to enable the austrian forces to be turned to more pressing matters on other fronts paris reported the christmas eve operations along the western front as not being important enough to record the cherman account mentioned only mining operations in which 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 have dons considerable execution recently against the allies trenches and lines of communication in persia the russians are declared to have severely damaged the persian insurgents in a battle twenty five miles from teheran along the rus alan front itself the fighting accord ing to berlin has been limited to pa arol engagements A quietus has been put on the talk of a huge german peace campaign from zurich by the departure from that town ot prince von buelow and ahls staff of secretaries of which much has been heard in the entente press during the past few days |