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Paia Singh

Village: Laskhri

City: Amritsar

Paia Singh, alias Uttan Singh, son of Bhagat Singh, Village Laskhri, P. S. Majitha, District Amritsar. He is believed to have served in the Cavalry before he left India in about the year 1910 or 1911 for China. From China he appears to have gone to Canada, where he remained for some time and thence to the U. S. A. which he entered illegally. He worked as a foreman in an orchard at Fresno and was one of the local Ghadrites. He only knew Urdu when he left India, but by private study picked up a good knowledge of English in the U. S. A. His address is reported to be S. Pal Singh, P. O. Box 1009, Stockton. He seems to be identical with the person who was reported to have paid a surreptitious visit to Vancouver about the middle of October 1931 and to have explained to his countrymen there that the Ghadr Party were greatly disappointed at the sudden departure to India of Kapur Singh of Kharaudi (K-14) because they were thinking of sending funds through him to India which according to his statement amounted to $15,000.