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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [41v] (91/834)
The record is made up of 1 volume (411 folios). It was created in 1917-1920. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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474 —
General.
A force of about 1,000 Anazeh tribesmen left Wejh on the
21 st for Teima, where they will constitute a Sherifian garrison.
Some reinforcement is certainly needed east of the southern
section of the railway, since it is reported that the Harb, ranging
east of Medina, have followed the example of the Hawazim and
refused to allow Sherifian operations there. The Hawazim
themselves seem, for the moment, appeased.
Sherif Sharraf has taken up a reconnoitring party from
Jeyadah towards el-Ala with a couple of mountain guns. His
success will depend on whether the enemy s Mule M.l. has been
sent north, in obedience to orders against which the local O.C. has
protested. There is no doubt that the central section of the Maan-
Medina line is in a very precarious case, the L. of C. troops and 2 nd
Composite Force having over forty per cent of their strength
unfit, and their animals in a very weak state. Deserters are said
to be coming in freely from Medina and in a very weak state.
Basil
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, O.C. 2 nd Composite Force, has been given some
weeks leave and his command has been taken over by Atif Bey,
late O.C., Damascus district, who, in turn, is succeeded at
Damascus by Munib Bey, late O.C., Kerak.
Someone, probably at German instigation, has been carrying
off, without authority, two Nabathaean funerary statues from
the rock-tombs near el-Ala. We have photographs of these
taken in situ by Pere J. Jaussen before the war.
\_Late News .—Colonel Joyce informs us, nnder date
November 23, that the majority of the Darausha and Dumaniyah
Huweitat have gone eastward. The tribe is very anarchical and
refuses to recognise Audah or anyone else as Paramount Chief.
Mohammed ibn Jazi Colonel Joyce regards as a bad type of
Bedouin. His clans are at present in the Gueira—Fiji district,
as are also the Suleimaniyah, Neiamat and Rikabat clans. The
Beni Atiyah are concentrated at el-Ayana. King Husein’s
youngest son, Zeid, has gone up to Gueira and been well received
by the garrison.
Captain Depui, with a reconnoitring party, mounted,
accompanied by guns, and composed of Algerians and Arabs,
leached, on October 29, the well of Dersiya, only eleven kilometres
fiom Medina and four kilometres south-east of Muheid station.
Here a deserter joined them. They were not attacked.]
Asir.
Idrises Projects.
We have received Major Reilly’s full report of the mission
which he undertook in October to Jeizan (see p. 442) • also
General Stewart’s covering despatch to the High Commissioner
and copies of certain letters communicated ' by Idrisi. The
mission, on which Major Reilly was accompanied by Lieut.
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The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘Arab movement’; the bulletins cover a wide range of topics and key personalities.
The volume contains the following maps:
- A map of Central Arabia showing St John Philby's route from Uqair to Jidda 17 November to 31 December 1917: folio 103.
- Sketch map prepared from RNAS photographs and reconnaissance by HMS City of Oxford of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mur February to March 1918 : folio 170.
- Sketch map of Hejaz (1919): folio 317.
- Tribal sketch map of the Hadhramaut ‘showing only tribes of fighting value’: folios 333v.
Towards the back of the volume is a small amount of correspondence respecting the distribution of Notes on the Middle East ; the Arab Bulletin was superseded by this publication. Copies of numbers 3-4 of this publication can also be found at the back of the volume.
Tables of content can be found at the front of each issue. A small amount of content is in French.
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- 1 volume (411 folios)
- Arrangement
The Arab Bulletins are arranged in numerical order from the front to the back of the file. The Notes on the Middle East follow on from the bulletins at the back of the file in reverse numerical order.
The subject 759 (Arab Bulletins) consists of two volumes. IOR/L/PS/10/657-658.
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Condition: the edges of some of the folios towards the back of the volume have suffered damage to their edges due to general wear and tear. The affected folios are 389-390, 407-409, and 412.
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 413; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The front cover and the leading flyleaf have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 357-363 and ff 374-412 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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