K-15. Kapur Singh, son ofMit Singh, Jat Khalsa, ofMohi, P. S. Dhaka, District Ludhiana. He served in the 12th Bengal Cavalry for 4 years and went to Canada in 1907 where he worked on an electric railway and then took up a contract for piling timber, etc., at New Westminster. He left Canada in 1914 with a number of other Indians and an American, named Allen, travelled via Siam, and was arrrested in Amherst district, Burma. The party pretended to be a hardwood prospecting company, with shares behind them to the amount of 2‘/2 lakhs. During the journey in Siam they ran a cinema show. Kapur Singh was reported in Canada to have been a persecutor of loyal Indians and a close friend ofBhagwan Singh Granthi of village Viring, district Amritsar (a former leader of the Ghadr Party). He was at one time Vice-President of the Khalsa Diwan at Stockton, an active sender of the "Ghadr", and was one of the signatories of the address to the Duke of Connaught in connection with attendance of ex- sepoys at his review. He was then described as a hot tempered, fanatical man, clever and educated in English and Gurmukhi. After his arrest in Burma he attempted to communicate with Allen by means of a letter, part of which was written in invisible ink. The letter could not be completely deciphered but the fact of his having had recourse to such a device tended to show that the story of the prospecting company was an invention. Nawab Khan (a former member of the Ghadr Party) stated that he met Kapur Singh and Hardit Singh, one of his companions at New Westminster in 1910. They were looked upon as leaders of the Punjabi labourers in the town. When the United India League was formed in 1911 to agitate against the Canadian Immigration Laws, the pair took a prominent share in the movement and collected a large amount of subscriptions for the purpose. Kapur Singh was reported by the Consular authorities at Bangkok to have shown himself a revolutionary, to have been helped with funds by seditionists there, and to have made revolutionaiy speeches. He was sent up for trial in the Burma Conspiracy Case and sentenced to transportation for life. He is in the Andamans.