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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [185v] (379/834)
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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198 —
“ Neither we nor our ancestors have at any time done any
thing to compromise our interests.
“All the hardships suffered during long years of war (with
the Turks) are well known to have been endured for the sake of
maintaining our independence.
“ We have therefore a prior right to the consideration of our
claims by the Great Government—now and at all times in
the past.’'
Dated Jumad-el-Akhir 17. 1336.
[March 30, 1918].
I his letter, however, must not be taken at its face value.
The Imam is far from putting himself in our hands yet, or
proposing to help us against the Turks ; but he is trying to find
out whether, as the price of a future agreement with himself, we
would, under any circumstances, throw over Idrisi, and admit
his own claim to control the Treaty tribes of the Aden Hinterland.
He thinks these conditions not for ever impossible and he is
opening his door a little way, while he watches our continued
inaction at Aden and gleans what news he can of our fortunes in
the war elsewhere.
NOTES.
Dhows off Hejaz am! Asir.
The question of
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
traffic in the Red Sea was brought tc
the ore again about two months ago by a complaint from Kine
Husem that supplies were being smuggled from Massawa tc
Birk, and thence to the Turks and Turkophil Arabs. This was
probably an excuse for the King to hark back to his old wish
bat he should control one of the Idrisi ports and have his own
patrol dhows, a proposal which it was most inadvisable tc
->anc ion Meanwhile a couple of Hejaz dhows with passes for
Lith and Massawa were intercepted by the Red Sea Patrol near
d -Roinari, a few miles south of Kunfida, one of them
^ f*r° Turkl8h d f serters and some -303 ammunition.
Representations were made to the Hejaz authorities, for it was
rade titlTV ^ T* ‘T ng P 88868 for He i az ^ows to
nrWod d J a8sawa lu and w '^mg at the contraband traffic
m ini ed m by these dhows on the Arabian coast south of Lith.
in the Wm T u® NnVa a ? thoritie8 i,lsisted 011 co-operation
Ihei , 3 l V, 'Aore of
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
traffic, especially since
■i , ' n £ t le blockaded coast was being rendered more
buov^’hv -A P h rS ’ Sten f remOVa,s of beacons and
buoys by Arabs m the pay of the Turks. The Kino- was also
3 ,e his d toteC 'f-?- the ( limit ° f ““thority south From Lith
as Ir Z Dann'r’ i 1 ^. shore « OIltr °l! this he declared to be
a» far as Dauqa, about half-way between Lith and Kunfida.
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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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- Title
- File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
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- 185r:185v
- Author
- al-Dīn, Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd (Imam Yahya)
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