J-6. Jagat Singh, son of Gurdit Singh, Village Kandola, District Jullundur. He served in the 76th Punjabi Regiment for 5 years and went to America about 1909-10 accompanied by his brother Jiwan Singh. He was a prominent supporter of Bhagwan Singh of village Viring, district Amritsar (a former leader ofthe Ghadr Party), and was one of his regular staff. He also assisted him in his press in Valencia Street in June 1917. On the 5th January 1918 he was appointed Secretary ofthe Pacific Hindustan Association : Hindustan Ghadr Party, in place of Santokh Singh of village Dudher, district Amritsar, a leader of the Ghadr Party (since dead), and Ram Chandra of Peshawar (since dead). After Bhgawan Singh's arrest he went on a tour with Rattan Singh of Raipur Doaba (R-36) and others to collect money for his bail. He took a leading part in the attempt to bring the Stockton Sikh Temple under the control of the Ghadr Party. In September 1918 he took up his residence at 5, Wood Street. He was Secretary ofthe party in 1919 and in July ofthat year he and Gopal Singh (G-25) presented, on behalf of the Hindustan Ghadr Party, a diamond inlaid sword and a silk flag ofthe "Irish Republic" to President De Valera on the occasion of his visit to San Franciso. In 1920 he was closely associated with Tarak Nath Das (a former leader ofthe Ghadr Party), and accompanied him to the Indian camps at Fresno. In June 1920 he was reported to have carried bundles of seditious litrature stated to be destined for Irish soldiers in India and for Persia to the Mexican border and was believed to have opened secret communication with Mexico. About the end of September 1920 it was rumoured that he was to leave for Russia via Mexico and Cuba, but in October 1920 he was located in New York. He returned to San Francisco from New York on the 12th March 1921 and accounted for his movements for the past few months by claiming that he had succeeded in reaching Switzerland. According to his statement he met one Kartar Singh (probably Karta Ram, K-28) there in whose company he proceeded to Berlin, whence he was taken by aeroplane to Russia, where he declared, he had an interview with Trotsky, and met some of Kamal Pasha's associates. There is some doubt, however, as to whether he ever left New York : and in many quarters it was supposed that he had misappropriated the funds given by the party for his mission. In May 1921 he evinced interest in the subject of ’Chemical prescription' (bomb making ?). In 1923 he was working in the Ghadr Ashram at San Francisco. Shortly afterwards he left the Ashram to join his brother. Jiwan Singh, farming at Fabens on the California Texas border, where he was suspected of being enaged in smuggling Indians from Mexico into the U. S. A. His departure was due mainly to differences with some ofthe Party leaders owing to the suspicion referred to above. In 1929 he was still residing at P. B. 18 Fabens. Texas and housed Rattan Singh of village Raipur Doaba (R-36) there when the latter visited California surreptitiously. About this time also he received word from Harjap Singh (H-32) in Kabul that on the conclusion of the Afghan Civil War he would certainly be sent for to assist the Ghadr Party group in Kabul. He now has a farm in Brawley in the Imperial Valley, (Southern California).

Description : Height 5’-V5"; small spots on face; slanting nose; fair complexion; one leg shorter than the other owing to an accident.