Show germans TO w CH 0 THE go aek EE BOBBER 00 OBER HOLIDAY LULL IN WORLD WAR LIKELY FIRST TO BE BROKEN ON THE BALKAN FRONT guarantee guarantees demanded of central power powers by greek government german germans asure assure Str blan blans they will respect nationality london dispatches from the conti nent predict that the holiday lull will first t be b broken en 0 on u t the h e I 1 balkan la 1 k a n front fron firse where ribe O 0 greek k 0 observers b se r y er s b believe e 1 i evo the central powers are preparing a hugo hur 0 army for operations directed against the entente whether this will III take the torra form ot of an actual attack on or merely an advance into greece tor for the purpose of belling seizing 8 strategic tra tegla defensive positions Is a matter ot of leon leen speculation in athens A according cc to one correspondent the greek government has definitely 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 ond endangered angered according to dispatches from a serbian source the germans hae hane established a provis provisional lonAl gov government emment at nish withdrawing all the bulgarian and austrian troops and ending but garlan austrian interference in tha ad ministration of affairs it Is added that proclamations hae been issued that the germans will respect serbian nationality one of the moat most interesting of the reports came through athens to the effect that on friday german artillery on lake dobran about forty miles northwest of was shelling the anglo french lines in areek macedonia which the allies are con to fortia tort fort lf if this might easily mean that the looked for advance by the forces of the central power powers against the allied base at Sal was about to begin the montenegrin official comment cation states that the austrians lans are entrenching ing on an a front between mon benegro and serbia which british observers take 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 more pressing matters on other fronts paris reported the christmas eve eye operations along the western front as not being important enough to record the german account ment mentioned ionel only mining operations in which the ger mas blew up works which were under construct construction Jon in front of their lines in la the dardanelles Darda nelles the turkish guns have been busy and according to con have done considerable execution recently against the eluja trenches and lines of in persia the russians are declared to have severely damaged the persian insurgents in a battle twenty five miles from teheran along the als IU front itself the fighting according to berlin has hits been limited to patrol engagements A A quietus has been put on the talk of a huge german peace campaign from zurich by the departure from that town of prince von yon buelow and his staff of 0 secret arlea of which much haa has been heard in the entente press during the past few lays |