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Show CARAVAN'S TAKE REFUGEES HE FIRST OFFICIAL WORD SAYING ARSENAL ZONE IS SAFE IS GIVEN OUT Many Go Back Knowing That Only Wrecks Of Homes May Offer Them Cheer; Refugees Are All Eager Dover, N. J. All roads in Jersey's shell-shattered area led back to the abandoned homes of Mount Hope, Hi-bernia, Hi-bernia, Picatinny and the smaller communities com-munities nestled along the narrow hillside hill-side roads and every vehicle carried wornout refugees returning. In fire trucks, under the canvas covers of the motor transport service, in private cars and in chartered busses whole families, bewildered by three days of dazed exile, found themselves going back to their broken little homes, abandoned in head-long flight from the terrors let loose by Saturday's Satur-day's arsenal explosion. They knew that in nearly every case all windows in their homes had been shattered with the first warning blast. Many knew the walls of their homes had caved in, that sheds had collapsed and floors dropped into cellars. A few had made exploraotry visits in search of possessions and realized the ruin to which they were returning. But like the peasant population of the great war, the destruction of their homes was not enough to keep them away and with the coming of General Gener-al Drum's official declaration that it was now safe to permit the passage of civilians into the patrolled sections a few miles around the arsenal, in every case the refugees asked anxiously anx-iously to be taken home. All afternoon the Red Cross workers' work-ers' relief headquarters in Morristown, at the United States hotel, were kept busy loading their three days' boarders board-ers into the odd and varied conveyances convey-ances that carried them home. From temporary shelter in the rectory of the Redeemer church, from the American Amer-ican Legion rooms, from the Market street mission and from the Woman's Community club, loads of women, chil-dren, chil-dren, boys, babies, went out. The task at Dover was completed earlier in the day. |