N-13. Nand Singh, son of Bhagwan Singh, of Bangle, P. S. Patti, District Lahore. He arrived in Shanghai from India in 1911 and obtained employment as a watchman. His services were dispensed with in 1915 owing to his connection with certain Indian extremists who had arrived from America. He was actively disloyal during the Great War and assisted in the distribution ofseditious literature arriving in Shanghai. He was a close associate of the deportees Harbaksh Singh (H-9) and Gajjan Singh (G-3), and is believed to have assisted them in the production of the "Hind Jagawa". He proceeded to India in 1925 with the Shanghai Shahidi Jatha, but was not one of its members. Since his return to Shanghai in October 1928 he is reported to have been taking an active part in local seditious activities. At several seditious meetings which he attended he is reported to have given exciting accounts of Kirti activities in the Punjab and ofthe inability ofthe Punjab Government to control the movement, and exhorted Kirtis to be ready to help the Russian workers in the war with Russia which was imminent. About 1929 he was reported to be the President of the Paoshing Road Gurdwara, Shanghai. He took a leading part in a scuffle between the Sikhs and the Police at Shanghai when Chanan Singh of Dhonda, district Amritsar, who escaped from the Hospital in May 1931 while he was undergoing a sentence of one year’s imprisonment, was re-arrested, he took part in the Asiatic Culture Society meeting held at Nanking on the 5th April 1931. Is now said to be employed as a watchman in Shanghai and to hold strong Akali views. Owns landed property.

Description : Age 43 years; medium height; sallow complexion; long beard.