I. AJMERE URS - An important Muslim pilgrimage lasting seven days - one of the biggest in India held yearly at Ajmere.

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II. GRADUATES FOR THE IAF - 'Passing Out' Parade of the officer cadets of the Indian Air Force on the completion of their first training course.

II. GRADUATES FOR THE IAF - Air Commodore F J Vincent took the salute and addressed a simple but impressive parade held on the occasion of the graduation of new Indian Air Force Officer Cadets, who have completed their first training course. After the successful termination of three more courses of training, they will be eligible to wear wings of the Indian Air Force. Awards were also presented by the Air Commodore, to winners of Inter-flight Competitions. The Air Commodore paid compliments to the standard of talent joining the commissioned ranks of the Indian air Force. Of the total number of cadets who took up the course 87 per cent were successful. Air commodore Vincent bids good luck and God speed to these youths of India who will defend their own country in the air.

III. ARMY SPORTS - Physical Training demonstrations and sports, including the national Dance of the Pathans.

III. ARMY SPORTS - A mixed gathering of officers, civilians and troops gathered at Karachi to see the Army sports there. They say that Indian soldiers when drilled and disciplined made some of the toughest fighting men we have ever seen. Tough they are, and tough they come. This is rather a large 'V' for Victory. Here are some of the Garhwalis - and then the Punjabis and Baluchis looking on at the popular Khattak dance of the Pathans. Some of the Scotsmen present must have recollected with fond memory those cold days on the Moors of Scotland with the bagpipes playing and the men dancing the Highland Flight.

IV. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY - Wounded British and India troops - casualties from the Burma Front - being taught useful trades during their convalescing period.

IV. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY - elsewhere are British and Indian troops - casualties from the Burma Front. These unfortunate men, who have been in one way or the other badly wounded in battle, are encouraged to learn some trade that will help them in the future. They are given the best possible care and attention, and wherever possible those limbs which have ceased to function are given a new life. These are some of the results of this course in Occupational Therapy.

V. TRAINING GURKHAS FOR ASSAULT - Pictures of the rigid training which recruits have to undergo today in any Army Training Centre.

V. TRAINING GURKHAS FOR ASSAULT - Strenuous modern training, or to use army language - blitz courses are given at this Gurkha Training Centre. The independent kingdom of Nepal has always been a staunch ally of Britain, and since the beginning of the present war, the martial Gurkhas in their thousands have been joining India's fighting forces. These are some of the new recruits who have only had a month or two of training. They learn some of the methods of modern warfare such as have been adopted in recent allied campaigns. If there is to be a baptism of fire - our men are being trained early to take it, drive through it and give it in return at the end.

VI. ASSEMBLING AIRCRAFT IN INDIA - Interesting pictures of fighter and bomber planes being assembled for the first time in India.

VI. ASSEMBLING AIRCRAFT IN INDIA - Not till recently was it considered possible for fighter and bomber plans to be assembled in India. These pictures, taken at one of the assembly Plants show how aircraft in large numbers are being assembled in the country and the efficiency of the Indian technicians who are handling this complicated piece of work. To this plant come the engines, the wings, the machine guns and the bomb carriages. They are fitted to be sent to the Eastern Front where they will have an important part to play against the Japs in Burma. Allied air supremacy on all fronts in 1943 is a well established fact. The pounding of enemy-occupied Burma, of southern and western Europe, right into the heart of Germany is only an indication of the enormous air strength which is being built up in every corner of the Allied world. Although assembly plants like these are a war time feature, it is certain that they will play an important part in Civil Aviation after the war. They are welcome to our growing sense of industrialisation. Plants like these give technical training to thousands who have enrolled for services. The ordnance depots are everyday turning out skilled technicians and the assembly plants are doing likewise in the sphere of aviation.