CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 382

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Statement made by Nawab Khan, son of Gaus Khan,

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On arrival at Hong Kong our ship searched by the Police as expected. The search was conducted by a European Gazetted Officer and a Sikh Sergeant Major. Nothing was found by them except a few papers belonging to Indar Singh. The European Officer of Police was suspicious of these papers and ordered his Sikh Fergeant-Major to read them. This the Sergeant- Major failed to do written, as they were in a code which was decipherable by Indar Singh alone. Moreover, the Sergeant-Major reassured his superior officer that Indar Singh was a man of good repute and this statement was confirmed by some certificates which Indar Singh produced and which he had received from various Gurdwaras, Among these certificates was one from Bhai Bhagwan Singh, commending Indar Singh for his services as Granthi in the Gurdwara at Hong Kong.

The European Police Officer then asked Indar Singh whether he used to associate with Bhagwan Singh in America, The reply was in the negative. Thereupon, the papers were returned to Indar ́Singh. These papers were, in reality, violently seditious! One was a History of the Sikh nation;

and another was a book of Punjabi poems which con- tained conversations, in the form of questions and answers, between "the enemies of our country" and the "soldiers

of the Ghadr movement".

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