N eight-mile column of Muslim refugees trudging from the East Punjab to the West Punjab, a 40-mile non-Muslim column of refugees moving from the West Punjab in to the East Punjab and some of the damage to roads and railways caused by the floods were the main highlights of scenes witnessed by a party of pressmen who flew 600 miles over the East Punjab and part of the West Punjab in the Governor-General`s Dakota. An API correspondent in the party writes: `[At Ludhiana] we saw two large groups of refugees who had camped in open space. We went on to Jullundur and sighted the first train, packed to capacity and with people perched on rooftops as most of the refugee trains are. The recent floods have disorganised rail movements and some stretches of roads have also been damaged. We sighted more refugee concentrations at Kartarpur. Later we saw a 40-mile long nonMuslim convoy which was crossing Balloki Head. The crossing has to be made across a single bridge and the process is slow. Here there were thousands who had left their all except for what they could carry on their backs gazing wistfully across the single bridge the crossing of which would signal the end of the nightmare they had gone through`.•