Bhag Singh, Canadian, son of Attar Singh, Jat, of Uppal, Bhopa, P. S. Nakodar, District Jullundur. He is reported to have served in a cavalry regiment at one time, but to have resigned and to have gone to America, whence he returned to India by the s.s. "Tosha Maru" on the 29th October 1914, with the avowed intention of raising rebellion. He was said to know bomb-making, and to have been particularly turbulent on the way up from Calcutta to the Campbellpur jail from which he was released in 1918 and restricted to his village. The restrictions were removed in December 1919. A year later he was active in fomenting rebellion in the Jullundur District where he associated with a number of returned emigrants including Master Mota Singh (M-38). He took an active part in running the "Pardeshi Khalsa" newspaper, and visited Bengal in 1922 to seek financial assistance for it. He organised a society of returned emigrants of the Doaba known as the Khalsa American Canadian Society with the assistance of Piara Singh of Langeri (P-25). The same year he was sentenced to a term of one year under Section 107 C. P. C. for delivering seditious speeches. Subsequently he became the Treasurer of the Doaba Rakshak Committee, and a member of the Desh Bhagat Qaidi Parwar Sahaik Committee, the objects of which were to afford financial assistance to the families of the imprisoned members of the Akali gang. He was bound down on more than one occasion, and during the succeeding years was at the helm of the Kirti Party affairs and after the death of Santokh Singh of Village Dodher, District Amritsar, in May 1927 became one of the Managing Directors of the "Kirti" newspaper. In August 1927 he was elected Secretary of the Kirti Party. He received large financial support from the Sikhs in America and Canada, and assisted in the formation of a 'Workers and Peasants' Party in the Punjab on the lines of the Labour Party in England and America. His application for a passport in 1928 to Shanghai, Hong Kong are Canada as a representative of the Sikh Missionary Society was refused. He was elected to the Executive of the All India Kirti Party at the All India 'Workers and Peasants' Conference held at Calcutta about the end of 1928. In spite of his expensive tastes in wine and women he still commanded great influence among the Sikhs abroad, and throughout looo and 1Q30 was active in the education of cultivators on national lines and imparting revolutionary ideas to them. He took a prominent part in the Akali and also the Congress agitation for the boycott of the Indian Statutory Commission. He was prosecuted under Section 108 C. P. C. and sentenced to one year's S. I. in default of furnishing security of Rs. 2,000 on 18th May 1930 but was released in March 1931 under the Gandhi- Irwin truce. He became the Secretary of the Doaba American Canadian Society and in July 1931 was elected a member of the Working Committee of the Provincial Kirti Kisan Party. In September 1931 he visited Meerut and Delhi and interviewed the accused in the Meerut and Delhi Conspiracy Cases. About the beginning of September 1931 he was reported to be in Delhi trying to excite the labourers working in various mills and to start a Workers' Home for the benefit of their children, and thereby enlist their sympathy. He evaded police surveillance again in November 1931. He attended a secret meeting of the Kirti Party at Lahore on 10th October 1932 at which it was decided to open a Kirti Kisan Sabha in ever} district, and help the Congress cause. In January 1932 he was elected Presidennt of the Doaba Kirti Kisan Party, Jullundur. He is kept under constant police surveillance, but often evades it by keeping away from his village frequently. Associates with Karam Singh of Chima (K-20), Piara Singh of Langeri (P-25), Dasaunda Singh Mann (D-16), Lachman Singh of Khurdpur (L-6), Sohan Singh of Bhakna Kalan (S- 55), etc. Description : Age 38 years; height 5'-8"; thin build; long face: wheat complexion.