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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [114v] (237/834)
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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— 80 -
during the operations on the Shatt el-Hai in December, 1916, and
January, 1917. Badr Rumaiyidh also came m to us at
Nasiriyah in 1915, but became hostile after the fall of Kut.
The northern section of the Dhafir (Bulletin 44, p. 118)
who occupy the desert south of Samawah and Khidr has now
come within the sphere of our influence. Lizam ibn Dhiraa, the
chief of this section, has a feud of long standing with our ally,
Hamud ibn Suweit, the nominal paramount sheikh of the whole
tribe. Lizam will not consent to a reconciliation with Hamud, but
undertakes to prevent the passage of supplies to Ajeimi.
Ajeimi’s southward movement, reported in the last Bulletin,
was due partly to the impossibility of obtaining supplies from the
Euphrates, and partly to the difficulty of keeping in touch with
the Turks owing to the attitude of the Anazeh.
It is reported that fighting took place at the end of last year
between sections of the Duleim and the Shammar, and that the
following of ISFigris ibn Qaud deserted him. Nigris is the chief
sheikh of the Bu Nnnr section of the Duleim who inhabit the
Gezirah between Ramadi and Hit, and has recently thrown in his
lot with the Turks.
Fahad ibn Hadhdhal of the Amarat is at present sixty miles
south of Shethata, at the junction of Wadis Tabal and Ubaiyidh.
His camels are in poor condition, but grazing will now improve
as abundant rains have fallen.
Githwan ibn Murshid of the Sibaa is at Qaarah, and Mujhim
ibn Muheid of the Fedan at Shaib Aghani, fifty miles further
south.
It appears that Feisal ibn Ferhan (see Bulletin 59 , p. 343 ),
who visited Mecca last August has but little influence with his
tribe, the Jerba Shammar, and his plan of co-operating with the
British has accordingly been abandoned. Abdel Aziz ibn Ferhan
and his son Ajil Laser, being jealous of Feisal, refused to
join him and have now returned to northern Mesopotamia,
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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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