BELIEVES MOBILIZATION OR ORDER MAY BE EXPECTED
An order for mobilization may be expected soon under the conditions which confronts the United States, in the opinion of Captain Avery D. Cummins, U. S. A., commandant of the University of Idaho battalion. There is a great shortage of men with technical training for military service, the captain stated, and applications from men (Continued on Page 2)
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PRESIDENT OUTLINES SITUATION TO CONGRESS
Germany Has Deliberately Violated Her Solemn Assurance, He Declares—United States Has No Alternative but to Follow Course Announced.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Surrounded by secret service agents, and before a crowd that jammed the executive and diplomatic galleries, President Wilson this afternoon outlined the crisis that is before the United States at a joint session of congress. Intense excitement prevailed.
The president made a most careful review of the developments in the German situation and read portions of the German and American diplomatic correspondence written following the torpedoing of the Sussex last spring, the incident which caused an agreement for restricted submarine activities to be arranged between the two nations.
All diplomatic relations, the president announced, have been severed.  On account of the new German submarine order which went into effect Thursday, and which the United States government contends, is in direct violation of the Sussex agreement. "Germany has deliberately withdrawn her solemn assurance given the United States in the Imperial government's note of May, 1916," the president stated. 