ANXIOUS SUNDAY SPENT
By PRESIDENT WILSON
Closely Scrutinizes All Hit News
From Germany's Enemy
From Germany.
OFFICIALS AT THE FIFTH
Department of Justice Officials, Grave
Washington to Make Plans for Organizing Federal Guards in Many
of the Cities.
WASHINGTON, February 4. With
the immediate danger of war with Germany averted, the United States tonight settled down to wait for an overt
action by the German naval forces, in violation of the German-American pledges. The situation at the American steamer Housatonic by a German submarine, which for twenty-four hours had kept President Wilson and all official Washington at the highest tension, following the diplomatic break between Germany and this country, was accomplished with full regard for American rights and internal national law.
A formal report to the State Department establishing this fact relieved the strain, and placed the Mousatonic in order among several German-American controversies which will be settled "after the war."
With the incident, President Wilson, worried and worn, watched the news from Germany's submarine zone anxiously, apprehensive that any hour might bring word of a "sacrifice of American ships or American lives," which would force the United States into a war.  Open hostilities.
The opening of hostilities.
Meantime, all of the energies of the government were devoted to organizing the military, naval and neutrality forces of the United States into wartime condition. Despite the secret censorship which engrossed every naval and military order with mystery, it was learned tonight that the reserve officers of the navy will be ordered into service, and that the entire reserve fleet will be commissioned and manned. 