File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎33r] (74/834)

RAMADI AND THE TRIBES.
It has taken a little time to appraise even the first
ettects of the Kamadi victory on the local tribes, but the
I ohtical Office, Baghdad, is now in a position to give us the
following information, under date November 16 :
The effect has been conspicuous first and foremost on the
hostile ^Duleim tribe, whose co-operation with the Turks upon
their Euphrates L. of C., and also on the desert road from Hit
to Tekrit, has long been of importance to the enemy and
handsomely paid for. The paramount sheikh of the Bedouin
sections of this tribe, Ali ibn Suleiman esh-Sharqi, who has a
house at Ramadi, surrendered to our troops there, and with
Sheikh Hardan, chief of the A1 Bu Dhiyab section,
proceeded to Baghdad to offer the tribe’s submission in form.
This was accepted and the two chiefs were sent back to Ramadi
to make good their promises by active help-to our forces ; but,
no-one being certain how long they will wear their coats turned
outward, each has to send a son to be kept at Baghdad in
guarantee of good faith.
The Zobaa tribe also, which ranges near Khan Maqdam and
the rail-head of the Decauville line to Baghdad, and for some
time has been harrying the road from Fellujah to Mahmudiyah,
has bowed to the blast, and its Chief, Dhari, has made reluctant
submission. As for the great Zobeid tribe, which ranges across
the Jezirah from Hillah on the Euphrates to Kut on the Tigris,
it has not yet come in definitely ; but Ajil ibn Ali Samarmad,
its chief in the Hillah district, who has always kept aloof from
us and has now gone to the Shatt. el-Hai, is reported to be
shaken, and ready to take an opportunity of submitting, if his
face can be saved.
Ajeimi Saadun is still out against us, though he has not
had much success in raising from the Bedouins about Hit and
Kebeisa the levies he promised the Turks {see p. 411). He has
been on a visit to the enemy at Hit, but is now back at his own
camp at Bir el-Lussaf in the desert some seventy miles south
west of Nejef.
The great Anazeh tribes of the Shamiyah and the north
Syrian Desert are all showing friendly dispositions. Fahad ibn
Hadhdhal is encamped between Kerbela and Nejef, and beside
him is now T the other great Amarat chief, Mohammed ibn Mijlad,
newly returned from the Pilgrimage with a letter from King
Husein. But he is not quite at one with Fahad, whose claim to
control the Dahamishah section he contests. He swears, however,
that he is as much our friend and ally as his rival. Col.
Leachman, who is looking after him and his brother, Jazaa, chief
of the Zebinah sub-section, proposes to put his professions to
some proof. The Seba are coming slowly southward under
Mohammed ibn Murshid, Ibn Fiqiqi and Ibn Qurdush, and have