Enclosure No.2 in Hankow No.32 of April 21, 1914.
State ement of Mohd (isohammed?) Azim to Mr R.S.Pratt.
Honoured Sir,
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Being a loyal subject of the British Government herewith most submissively approach your Honour and give you this" information. On Saturday last I met one Indian named Isar Singh x and he showed me one paper named "Indian Socialogist" edited by Shymaji Krishna Vernar H.A. (Oxon) who was a prime Minister for som some time in Baroda state and then as Barrister at Law in England. He was deported from India because he was always making seditions. Being a rich man he went to Paris and form there he issues this
paper. This Isar Singh asked me to join his party but I refused. He has opened a school in Hua Chin Kai on the boundary of the Ger- man Concession, but his main object is to get all the Sikhs i.. the
there every day and preach seditions. It is a wide rumour ang the Sikhs at Hankow that there is going to se a revolution in In- dia within a few months. In the Sikh gurdwara they have some pa- pers in Gurmukhi which state this. The Princes of some native states have chartered a steamer named "Nanik Sahib" and there agen is Gurdit Singh and he did send telegrams to every place that he can take every Indian who is in possession of some money to Ame- rica, but it is arranged that he will first go to Canada and then return to India with all the men on board and then they will start the revolution. That is what I have heard from the Sikhs. It is evident truth as it is talked of every day among the Sikhs. Being a loyal subject of his most gracious Majesty I feel it my duty to inform you of this. Your honour may put some reliable detective from the Police force in whom the Captain Superinten- dent has full confidence and then you can easily get all the pa- pers and every information. Captain Barrett of the Shanghai Polic can also give you informations as I have heard that the Sikhs ther are also playing some tricks. By writing this petition I don't mean to put a libel on any man, but I feel bound to give you this information so that the Consulate may take precautions in case if the supposed to be revolution starts.
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