I. CEYLON VISITED BY HMS CEYLON

I. CEYLON VISITED BY HMS CEYLON - What's in a name? an exciting afternoon when His Majesty's Cruiser Ceylon sails into harbour in the island she's named after. The Admiral invited prominent residents aboard Ceylon gave her a name - she gives Ceylon protection. Like this. People of the island fortress looking over a mighty floating fortress.

II. INCREASED PRODUCTION OF CONSUMER GOODS

II. INCREASED PRODUCTION OF CONSUMER GOODS - India's strangest looking village is Kundara, where Travancore engineers have tested the land beneath it, and found it perfect pottery clay. So Kundara villagers no longer till the soil - they dig it up in baskets loads and send it to the factory. Perfect clay, but dirty. So it's send to the laundry, where the dirt and sand is washed out of it. An electromagnet removes pieces of iron, and after the laundering process, then of course comes pressing and ironing. Then off to a final dry in the sun. Air bubbles are the last blemish to go, and it's ready for the machines to turn it into plates and basins, electric cleats, insulators, cups, crucibles. Hundreds of articles that pour out from the factory to join the widening stream of consumer goods made in India. It's part of the drive to exploit our natural wealthy, down to the very ground we stand on.

III. BLIZZARD HITS INDIAN TROOPS IN ITALY

III. BLIZZARD HITS INDIAN TROOPS IN ITALY - It makes a pretty picture; winter snow in Italy, but there's nothing pretty about trying to fight in it. It's gruelling work for our own men over there, but they've had a job to do under the blistering African sun - and they finished it. They've got a job to do in the bitter Italian winter - and they're going to see that through as well. Wind and the weight of snow bring down army telephone lines. Working for hours in numbing cold, Indian Army technicians trace out vital communication lines, finding breaks and repairing them. Every inch must be checked after a blizzard, every foot and wire which might stretch for miles. Mark of a first class soldier is his knack of making himself comfortable anywhere. The men soon learn that straw is the warmest bedding, and the unit tailor is there with his machine to run up protective clothing. The meeting place for a gossip when work's done is no longer the village peepul tree - it's the black-smith's forge.

IV. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NAGPUR

IV. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NAGPUR - It's the shape of things to come, and the viceroy had a glimpse of it when he went inside Nagpur's Technological Institute and saw how research workers are finding our new industries, new wealth. Experts in soap making showed Lord Wavell some of their secrets. In the workshop the men who will build the new industrial India talked to him about their craft. After the new India, a look round what is being done for the immemorial work on the land. And an inspection of something which might stand as a symbol for the unchanging side of the country. To wind up the visit, a chat with some of the local residents.

V. 14TH ARMY SMASHES JAP COUNTER ATTACK IN THE ARAKAN

V. 14TH ARMY SMASHES JAP COUNTER ATTACK IN THE ARAKAN - With Jap radio boasts filling the air, claiming to be on the march to Delhi, base headquarters of the fourteenth army prepares its smashing answer. The twenty-fifth Dragoon Guards move into position, along treacherous hillside roads that lead to the objective - Ngakyedauk Pass. The Pass comes into view, and unit after unit takes up its position. With tense nerves, conscious of the Japs hidden in the opposite jungles, the men wait for the signal for attack. General Briggs, commanding the Fifth Division, finally checks up. Issues an order. Radios flash the order to front line positions, and the whole front blazes up. Falling back before the assault, the Japanese leave a wounded soldier without medical aid. BBC reporter Richard Sharpe dresses his wounds, learns that the Japanese soldier had lain for days, injured and starving, with his own officer not two hundred yards away. Nothing had been done for him. They left him in their panic retreat and five thousand dead with him. Japanese prisoners, some of them men of the crack 55th Division, being rounded up, beaten by what Tokyo described as the impertinent and foolish army of Louis Mountbatten. While Jap wounded receive first aid treatment, allied observers bring in horrifying evidence that the Japanese had destroyed a prisoners' hospital in their retreat, bayoneting patients in their beds, murdering an Indian doctor who, when, found was still wearing his Red Cross arm band. But a blood-thirsty creed and boasting propaganda had not saved the Japs from defeat - their first big reverse in Burma.