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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [99r] (206/834)
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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The same force attacked the line between Bir Jed id and
Toweira on the 8 th. Major Davenport reports that the Arabs
rushed some posts across the open in splendid style, while
French and Egyptian demolition detachments, using 4,000
charges, destroyed seven miles of railway and telegraph line and
eleven culverts. An enemy attack from Bir Jedid was driven
back. All the afternoon a Turkish gun shelled the Arabs, who,
however, suffered no casualties.
It was reported by prisoners («) that Fakhreddin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had
just left Medina for Syria, and (A) that the train which was
wrecked near Abu Naam (see p. 36) was conveying some of the
inhabitants of Medina northwards.
(d) General.
The victory of Seil el-Hasa is considered by Sherif Feisal to
be of great political importance. It definitely compromises all
the inhabitants up to
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hasa and generally strengthens the
Arab Movement.
The head sheikh of Tafila is still reported to have Turkish
leanings, but the majority of the people are entirely pro-Sherifian.
The present Turkish garrison is reported to consist of three
battalions, but so much under strength that their total does not
exceed 600 men.
Enemy aeroplanes are now active in the Kerak area. An
Arab post has been placed on the Kerak-Mezraa road.
On February 12 over 1,000 lbs. of bombs were dropped on
Katrani station by the Australian B lying Corps. Bourteen direct
hits were obtained on the railway, rolling stock and station
buildings.
A patrol of twenty Turks was captured on Bebruary 10 ,
five kilometres south of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ethil, by Beni Atiyah undei
Ali el-Hadaydi. The Arabs severely damaged a train by means
of an electric mine, an engine and two trucks being derailed.
Sherif Ali reports a patrol engagement near Ibyar Ah (five
miles south-west of Medina) where the Arabs captured twelve
men, twenty mules and two riding camels. Between Medina and
Makheif (unidentified) the whole of an enemy patrol is stated
to have been killed and fifteen rifles taken.
NOTES.
Me,sopotamiati Neics .
Colonel Leachman, writing under date December 22, 1917,
considers that Mohammed ibn Mijlad (see Bulletin 70, p. 459)
is entirely untrustworthy. He had been camping with Ajeimi at
Shabikhah (seventy-seven miles south-west of Samawah) where the
latter is still encamped with two to three hundred men. Fahad
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- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:34v, 36v:47v, 49v:53v, 56r:95v, 98r:132r, 133v:139v, 141r:149r, 150v:174v, 175v:184v, 186r:194v, 195v:196r, 197v, 199v:216v, 219r:233v, 234v:237v, 241r:245v, 248v:252v, 255v:258v, 260r:264v, 266r:275v, 279r:286v, 287v:313r, 316r:349v, 351r:352r, 354r, 355r:358r, 361r, 363r:365r, 366v:367v, 368v:369v, 370v:397v, 400r:412v, back-i
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