Pritam Singh, Village Dhand Kasel, District Amritsar. According to an article which appeared in the "Peoples' Tribune" of Hankow on 2nd June 1927, he was in Hankow from 1903-10, actively engaged in sedition with Shanghai as his headquarters. He was deported to India for alleged subversive propaganda, but subsequently found his way to America where he was quickly absorbed into the Ghadr fold. There are traces of his having been both in the Ghadr fold. There are traces of his having been both in the U. S. A. and British Columbia from 1910 onwards, from 1914 he was in California. Subsequent enquiries showed that he was presumably identical with one Hamam Singh of Dhand Kasel who was employed by the Shanghai P. W. D. from 1903-10, but that he had not come to notice unfavorably during that period. In California he became one of the leaders of the Sikh group which ultimately secured control of the Ghadr Party. In 1920 he became a member of the Sacramento Committee of the Party and thereafter was frequently to be found at headquarters. He was one of a party of five Sikhs who left California early in 1926 for training in Soviet propaganda. From there he was in correspondence with Mahendra Pratap's party, and was then sent to China by the Comintern. He arrived in Hankow from Canton about 26th May 1927 with Bishan Singh of Burjraike (B-70) and Sawan Singh of Phadana (S-28). Thereafter he became the leader of the Ghadr Party in Hankow. He with Bishan Singh represented the Ghadr Party in the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference held about that time in Hankow. He closely associated with M. N. Roy, the notorious Indian Communist, on the occasion of the latter's visit to Hankow in July 1927. He left Peking for Manchuria in September 1928 with Indar Singh of Tuto Majra (1-5) and Rattan Singh of Raipur Doaba (R-36), and he and Indar Singh went on to Moscow for purposes of study. On his arrival there he submitted in November 1928 a report of his activities in China. In 1930 he was one of the Ghadr Party's representatives in Moscow passing under the name of Orlof, but he left that place shortly afterwards and was understood to be working somewhere in the interests of the Peasants' Party about the middle of that year. In July 1931 it was reported that the Ghadr Party were under the impression that he was still in Moscow. It is gathered that he has married and settled down somewhere in Russia and is no longer persona grata in Comintern circles.

Description : Age about 50 years; height 5'-6"; clean shaved; slight squint in left eye; close cropped hair; slender build.