D-16. Dasaundha Singh, alias D. S. Mann, son of Attar Singh, Jat, Village Dhada Kalan, P. S. Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur. He first came to notice in November 1922 as a student in Moscow, Idaho (U. S. A.) when in writing to another Sikh he stated that a student who was at the same University was ready to 'agitate for the freedom ofIndia'. In June 1923 he was reported to be interesting himself in the activities ofthe Ghadr Party. Early in 1925 he joined Mehendra Pratap's anti-British mission to Tibet and left San Franscisco for Shanghai with him on the 28th April 1925 without a passport intending to proceed to Russia via Siberia. On the failure of Mehendra Pratap's mission he was located at Peking. In October 1926 hemade a speech at a meeting held in the Ghadr Ashram in celebration of Guru Nanak's birthday, condemning the British for their cruel repression of the Akalis. About the same time his article entitled 'Let China and India unite for the Holy cause' appeared in the "Hindustan Ghadr". About the end ofJanuary 1927 he arrived in Hankow and formed the 'Oriental Oppressed People's Association', which was supported by the Kuomintang. In February 1927 he tried to make the Kuomintang enlist some Indians for military training, and edited the Gurmukhi "Hindustan Ghadr Dhandora", a highly seditious publication. He and his companions received instructions from the Ghadr Party and from Moscow to co-operate with M. N. Roy, the notorious Indian Communist, and spread disaffection among the Indians in China and tamper with the loyalty ofthe Police. He arrived in Shanghai from Hankow in April 1927 and in the same month a meeting attended by Gainda Singh (G-l), a member of Mehendra Pratap's misson, and Gajjan Singh (G-3), leader of the local seditionists, was held in his house at which plans were discussed for a campaign of assassination of British officers and for tampering with the loyalty ofthe British troops and Police stationed at Shanghai. Special efforts were made to persuade Indian soldiers and policemen to desert to the Hankow Government with a view to their training and subsequent employment by Moscow in Soviet schemes directed against India. He, along with Gainda Singh and Gajjan Singh, was arrested in Chapei on the 5th of May 1927 and convicted and sentenced on 5th July 1927 to one year's imprisonment and subsequent deportation. He was deported from Shanghai on 3rd March 1928 and on arrival in India was interned in the Midnapore jail under Regulation III of 1818, and subsequently transferred to Jullundur jail. He was reported to have remarked while in jail that "the British were a sort of disease and in every case should be got rid of by Indians". He was released in April 1929. On 2nd September 1929 he was re-arrested at Amritsar under Section 124-A, I. P. C., for making a seditious speech, and sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment in December. He was released again in May 1930. It was not long before he resumed his seditious activities and he took a prominent part in the affairs of the Kirti Kisan Party. He was General Secretary ofthe Punjab Provincial Kirti Kisan Party in 1931 and presided at the 3rd All India Workers' and Peasants Party Conference held at Karachi in March of that year. Towards the end of 1931 he was in correspondence with Mehendra Pratap in China and in February 1932 was reported to have arranged with certain students to enlist a few young men to undertake anti-militarist propaganda among the rural population. The following month he was reported to be taking a keen interest in the Workers' Home and was intending to proceed to Russia. He was consequently bound down to his village. In November 1932 he was alleged to be intending to go to Kabul stealthily, using Dilbagh Singh as his post box. He is a highly trained propaganda agent with strong revolutionary tendencies. Associates with a number of returned Ghadrites.

Description : Age about 35 years; height 5-7"; stout build; fair complexion; broad face and broad protruding forehead; sunken eyes; long nose; upper front teeth stopped with gold; a mole on the left side of the neck; speaks in a low voice; knows Urdu, Gurmukhi and English.