'Reports of administration for 1918 of divisions and districts of the occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Volume I' [‎115v] (235/470)

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The dispositions and numbers of the chief Zobah sections are as follows :—
Name of Section.
Total Strength.
Situation and Remarks.
Hitawiyin -
250
On Euphrates left bank down-stream of the Abu Ghurait
canal.
Shiti - - . -
200
Down-stream of the Hitawivin.
Sa‘adan
900
Cultivating portions of the Abu Ghuraib and Radhwaniyah
canals and the Euphrates left bank.
Kurushiyin
800
Cultivating portions of the Abu Ghuraib and Radhwaniyah
canals.
Falluj iyin -
150
Cultivating left bank Euphrates down-stream of Kurushiyin.
Chadadah (including
500
Left bank of the Euphrates for the remainder of the
Qurtan).
district. This section was formerly much stronger, but
most of them have moved away out of Falluj ah district
to cultivate the new Yusufivah.
Shuwartan
150
All these sections cultivate the upper reaches of the
Sumailat -
150
Saqlawiyah canal in that portion called the Gurmah and
Bani Zaid -
150
Abadi.
A1 Haib -
350
A1 Hamam
250
Various other minor sections, of less than 100 persons each, mingled among the
above larger sections, are the A1 Fayadh, Albu Sodah, Qaraghul, Ghuraibawin,
Subaihat, Quwaidat and Harasah, totalling about 450 persons all told. '
Total of the Zoba‘ in Fallujah district, 4,300 all told.
Full details of the various sub-sections of the Dulaim can be obtained from the
tribal list of the tribes of Baghdad wilayat issued by the Arab Bureau.
A tribal map is attached giving the position of the cultivators of the various
sections of tribes in the Division and the Divisional and District boundaries.
The various sections of the tribes have settled down quietly as they came
under our administration in a way which shows that they prefer ordered government
and justice, if they can depend on it, rather than lawlessness.
Nowhere in the Division is there friction between the tribes or intertribal
fighting.
During the year the intertribal boundary between the Zoba c and Bani Tamin
in the Duwairtan lands has been demarkated in the presence of a majlis composed
of Shaikhs of both tribes. The result has been to do away with a former cause of
friction between the tribes.
Counter claims for sheep raiding between the ‘Anizah and the Albu Murai,
a subsection of the Albu Rudaini, have been settled amicably.
The ‘Aqaidat asked for assistance to settle their outstanding feud with the
‘Anizah and this was easily arranged.
More and more are the tribes realising that the rulings of the British
Government are just and peaceable. Negotiation under Government supervision is
now generally sought after.
For long, certain sections of the Dulaim have been renowned for their thieving
and it is difficult to eradicate an acquired habit in a short time. Thefts have been
oi fiequent occurrence from the camps. Adequate steps, however, have been taken
to show the thieves that it does .not pay in the long run.
1 nci o is still a tendency on the part of the Shaikhs to shirk their responsibility
in assisting to maintain law and order; but, in proportion as they realise that the
Government demands are just and for the benefit of the community as a whole, so
they exert a greater measure of their influence with their tribes.
The cultivators are beginning to lose their suspicion that Government is only
prepared to take and give nothing in exchange.
On the whole, looking back through the year, the tribes have been favourably
impressed and they are gradually placing their confidence in Government. It only
remains in the future to see that they have no cause to think their confidence has
been misplaced.
2 . Re\ enue . (A) Land ItEvcnua. — From the most Northerly point of the
Division to where the hills fall away, from the river Euphrates just below Hit,
so far as investigation has shown, the majority of the cultivated land is tapu and
the chief source of land revenue is that derived irom date-trees, fruit trees, vegetables
and a certain quantity of shitwi and saifi crops.