I. PATIALA PROMOTES WARMINDEDNESS

I. PATIALA PROMOTES WARMINDEDNESS - Going round the war exhibition with the maharajah of Patiala and the Commander-in-Chief a question springs to mind. What's the most interesting job in the War? The navy comes high on the list of course, and looking at the crew and the exhibition's shop with the Commander-in-Chief, it might come first. But what about being a diver? It has possibilities. It's a nice quiet job, it's cool, in fact it's air-conditioned. Of course, it's not all it was before the war. With amphibious jeeps, you might still get run over by a motor car. And there's no denying it, it's a wonderful job to have in an air-raid. To get back to reality, the exhibition stages a most up-to-date tank battle, and if you think the concluding display wasn't quite so up-to-date you're wrong. The Russians sent cavalry against the German panzers, and the cavalry won.

II. ALL INDIAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

II. ALL INDIAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP - Championship tennis isn't always the best, but the exhibition match between Hal Surface and Choy sparkled with classic play. Choy is China's Davis Cup player, and Hal Surface is American's No 7 player in the same world series. Here he is, America's challenger to our own Ghaus Mohammed in the All India Singles final. Rough or smooth? I don't know which Ghaus Mohammed chose, but he certainly got the rough side of the play in the first set - he lost it, six-two. The score board, rather battered, like Ghaus, who lost the championship in three straight sets. However, he came back into form in the doubles, putting up a grand display with Inshad, his partner, and walking off with the All India Championship. The trophies, there seems to be so many of them that Lady Mallet must have given one away to everybody in the tournament. Anyway, here are the winners, top-liners for the coming year.

III. INDIAN CONTINGENT RETURNS FROM ENGLAND

III. INDIAN CONTINGENT RETURNS FROM ENGLAND - They're seeing India for the first time in four years. They went with the British Expeditionary Force to France. They fought there, they were at Dunkirk. Some of their comrades they left behind, prisoners of war, but still, according to reports, in good spirits. Major-General Alban brought them a message from the Commander-n-Chief. "The war will not be won" said the C-in-C "until the Japanese are beaten. After a well earned rest, you will be called upon to join your comrades in the new battle zone". Back in India, there was a band playing to welcome them. But they remember a different port, somewhere in England, after Dunkirk. And the British remember them too for the calm discipline with which they disembarked that day. Orderly, cheerful, much as you see them there. Journalists asked them questions. One man remembered the British phlegm during the Blitz, another the tremendous effort of the factory workers. But all of them had one thing to say, they were glad to be home again.

IV. 11TH INDIAN OLYMPIC GAMES

IV. 11TH INDIAN OLYMPIC GAMES - With the Maharajah of Patiala and the C-in-C at a fine parade, the Indian Olympic games had all the audience appeal that athletics so often lack. The girls seemed to have forgotten the flagpoles, but otherwise the ceremony was impressive. With General Auchinleck and His Highness facing the competitors drawn up in array, the Olympic ritual began. Pigeons were released, and the Olympic torch lit at a brazier that would have surprised the Ancient Greeks. So for that matter would the PT display. The Greeks were individualists, and mass exercises were not in their line. But it makes a good show for the spectators. Things began on a record note, with Vickers winning the one hundred and ten metres in the hurdling event in fifteen and a half seconds. The women ran so fast they made one thing clear. It's just as well for male prestige they don't allow mixed events. Miss Badal, the winter. The cycle race was cunningly run, the competitors playing for position, the all important technique of track cycle racing. But it soon warmed up to a fast finish. Malcolm of Bombay beating Cordero, who had already smashed the record. The 400 metres. And now, for those of you who know about such things, a fine series of shots on how to throw the discus. Three feminine styles in putting the shot. The pole vault, probably the event which calls for the highest co-ordination of muscle and a sense of timing. The Nawab of Rampur presented the prizes. There was a new note here. Winners at sports meetings usually take pride in receiving their prizes dressed as though they'd collapsed into their clothes from exhaustion. At Patiala, everybody was super-smart. That was the tone of the final march past, with the Patiala contingent, as usually running away with the show.

V. THE ADVANCE OF THE ARAKAN FRONT

V. THE ADVANCE ON THE ARAKAN FRONT - It's alive with Japs. First evidence of the enemy is Jap booty captured in a previous encounter, evidence of the turn of the tide of war, clearing the Arakan of Japanese strongholds. On the look out for snipers. 'Duck your head over the next hill, signed Tojo': and its sound advice, s Allied bombers go into action. The Japs retreat, but wary soldiers search the area for snipers left behind. A Jap hide out, Japan boats her soldiers never retreat, never lose their nerve, fight bravely to the death rather than face capture, well, here's the truth. A Jap soldier surrendering, as frightened as a cornered rabbit. Wounded prisoners are taken back for First Aid. A captured flag marks the end of the engagement, but there's excitement ahead. In fact, Dorothy Lamour, three jungles up, to say nothing of Tarzan.