Charan Singh, son of Attar Singh, Village Duleta, Police Station Phillaur,
District JuIIundur. Is reported to have gone to Vancouver, Canada, about
15/20 years ago. Was one of the seven Sikhs who left America in the
Spring of 1925 with Mahendra Pratap on an anti-British mission to Tibet.
After the failure of the mission he was in Japan in the beginning of
September 1926 with Bishan Singh (B-70) and Shamsher Singh of
Sursing (S-38). From Japan he corresponded with Munsha Singh (M-55),
Secretary of the Ghadr Party in San Francisco, and Pritam Singh of
Dhand Kasel (P-29) who was then in Moscow. He joined Dasaundha
Singh Mann (D-16), Ganda Singh (G-l), Indar Singh of Tuto Maira (1-5),
and Dulla Singh of Khera (D-34), in Peking on the 13th September 1926.
He made a speech on the occasion of Guru Nanak's birthday celebrations
held at the Ghadr Ashram, Peking in October 1926 in which he praised
the "Desh Sewak" of JuIIundur for its outspoken accounts of the
oppression inflicted on the Babar Akalis in the Punjab by a tyrannical
Government. He was in Hankow on the 26th January 1927 with
Desaundha Singh Mann in association with whom he took a leading part
in organising the activities of the Hindustan Ghadr Dhandora Party there.
In the split which occurred in the seditionist party in Hankow in Arugust
1927 he joined the faction headed by Pritam Singh of Dhand Kasel. He
took part in the reception to M.N. Roy on the occasion of the latter's visit
to Hankow in April 1927. In March 1929 he was reported to be in Peking
and to have received $ 300 from Mexico and to be in close touch with Dr.
Herbert Mueller, a local Chinese Communist, and with a Bolshevik agent
who had visited him from Tientsin. About that time he was reported to
have formed a small seditionist party in Peking. He was reported to have
attended an Akhand Path celebrated in the Paoshing Road Gurdwara from
10th to 12th April 1931 in honour of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj
Guru (the murderers of a Police officer in India). The speeches which
were delivered there were reported to be very violent calling upon all
Indians to follow their (Bhagat Singh and others) examples. Has not yet
returned home. Address in April 1933—P.O. Box 24, Peking, China. His
cousin, Jawala Singh is a previous convict. Owns landed property.
Description : Age about 50 years; fair complexion; round face; small
eyes; keeps long hair on head; height 5'-7".