DEATH PRESUMED

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 8

DEATH PRESUMED

SCHOLARLY SIKH

LAST HEARD OF IN TIBET

CALCUTTA, May 4.

Behind the baffl announcement today that the English courts liad given leave to presume the death of Sardar Sundar .Singh .-lips a strapge .story.

Tiie home of Sun Jar Singh was in the Simla hills, but lie made frequent journeys ■ into, wlmrej .fie related he met saintly men who had conquered, death and had been. living for (hundreds of years.' \ Iff 1929 he set?off, towards .Tibet,- and lias not been heard of since, though in 1931 there was a false report that lie had emerged. \ Sundai Singh originally was a\Sikh who was converted' to . Cristianitv as suddenly as St. Paul. He lia'd -all Vfciie fervour. >of the first Christians, and the rapture in his face, left none \iu doubt that to him, at least, the visiohs and miraculous appearance he described were real.

The writings of Sundar Singh have been translated into numerous European languages. German scholars have written hooks about him,'and in England ,where Canon Streeter was his editor and sponsor', lie was known and revered by many.

Whatever "iriay be the explanation of his visions, his was a rare spirat;‘ Needless t 0 say, many in 'Mdia... .jWjitU continue to believe that he is still'' • ■ ■ ■■; tv alive.