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Show GERMANS 10 GROSS I THE GRE BORDER H HOLIDAY LULL IN WORLD WAR BBB LIKELY FIRST TO DE BROKEN BAB ON THE BALKAN FRONT. BBB Guarantees Demanded of Central BBB Powers by Greek Government BBB Germans Assure Serbians They H Wfll Respect Nationality. B London. DIspatchos from the contl- M nent predict that tlio holiday lull will B first bo broken on tlio Balkan front, B whoro 0 rook observers bollovo tho B central powers aro preparing a hugo H army for oporatlonB directed against , BBB tho entente. BBB Whether thin will tako tho form of B en actual attack on Salonlki, or H merely nn advanco Into Oreeco for J ssssl i.l ilm i tho purpose or seizing buhu-biu , 1 fonslvo positions Is a mattor of kg? M Bpoculatlon In Athens. Jfin' H According to ono correspondo" M Greek government has d"jjf ,T: B cidod not to permit tho on fnth? B entente to penetrate Grctorrltory, H Zoss the central PowoJjaUfactor. B Uy guarantee that Oroj?rrltory will BBB not bo endangered. JF According to discos from e Ser- Wan source, thormans havo ostab-BBl ostab-BBl llshod a prdvlaI ovornmont at B Nlsh, withdraws" all tho Bulgarian H and Austrlajftroop8 and ending Bui-B Bui-B garian-Aun interference In tho ad-B ad-B BiinUtrai ot Serbian affairs. It is B added proclamations havo been B issus45nB0Unc'nK tnat tn0 Germans B wmlr86 Serbian nationality. BBV .M ' tno moBt Interesting of tho BBv imports came through Athons to the BB jfmttocl that on Friday German artlllory flYJ jCb Lako Dolron, about forty mlloa BBJ JEf aortlrwost of Ballnlkl, was shelling Lifl jv' -til0 AnKlorronch linos in Greok BH . Macedonia, whleh tho allies aro con-BH con-BH ,'' tlnulag to fortify. This might easily BH jjt'fr mean that tho lookod for advanco by flBawv 'orcOB ' tno oontral powers fr against tho allied base at Salonlki was BB about to begin. fl' Tho Montenegrin official communl- cation atatos that the Austriana arc B intrenching on a front botween Mon- BB tcnogro and Serbia, -which British ob- Bfl eorvors tako to mean a pauso in the BB activo Austran campaign against the BB little mountain country, presumably to BB eaablo the Austrian forces to bo BB turned ta more pressing matters on h omer rronts. BM, Paris reported the Christmas eve BTjTj oferaUosa along the western front as BbBLk. ' -HOt olBJf, Important e-HOUgh tQYrtx.-w4r Umfaauntjontlo'oa onW( mining operations', In which" tho'Cfof- Br- mao blow up works whloh wero under B construction in front of tholr lines. Bfl In tho Dardanelles tho TurklBh guns Bfl tiavo boon busy and according to Con- stantlnoplo, havo dono considerable execution recently against tho allies' trenches and linos of communication. In Porsla, tho Hussions aro declared BB to havo sevoroly damagod the Persian BB .Insurgents in a battlo twonty-flvo BB 7)ilea from Toboran. Along tho Ilus- Bl in front ltBolf tho fighting, accord- Bl 'Hto Borlln, has boon limited to pa BB nngogomonts. BB A Mlotua has bocn put on tho talk BB ' V0 arnlan Poaco campaign H " Jf0"1 zlch by tho loparturo from BB wwioPrlHco von Buolow and . ,s D&s NcreUri08, of which much , fca Hrd In tho ontoate pross H during ino pfct few jayB |