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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [222r] (452/834)
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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was Corporal (jrebhardt, a highly educated man of good family,
who spoke several languages well. He was formerly on von der
Goltz’s staff, and in 1916 was trained for six months in Intelligence
work under the German military attache in Constantinople. In
September he arrived in Baghdad and was employed in travelling
up and down the river, collecting economic information of all
kinds. He apparently co-operated with purchase officers,
supplying them with information, though he did not purchase
himself. Under Rohde’s supervision he worked out a scheme for
supplementing from local resources the food supplies required for
the army, which was to carry out the contemplated offensive
against Baghdad last winter.
ARMENIANS IN SYRIA AND TURKEY.
An intelligent and trustworthy Armenian gives the following
account of his escape from Damascus to Akaba and of what he
saw and learned of the internal troubles of the Turks :—
Itinerary.
A party of forty Armenians left Damascus on April 24 by
night, and hid themselves in a village an hour’s journey to the
south-east. After travelling for twenty-four hours they reached
Suweida in the heart of the Jebel Druz, where they spent two
days resting after their hurried flight. Mugheir, a village south
west of Jebel Hauran, was reached in twelve hours, and here
they hired a Druse with six camels. Disguised as Bedouins, the
fugitives marched southwards, keeping to the railway as long as
they dared ; but after four days wandering in the desert, their
guide took himself off with his camels. Several days later, they
fell in with some nomads from whom they hired a camel, and
continued their journey southwards. This time they decided to
keep to the railway, which they crossed between Aneza and Jurf
ed-Derwish. Still trending westward, they entered a valley, and
after an hour’s march, as night was falling, they were fired on
by Turks from the direction of Maan. They had no casualties,
and at once retraced their steps for some distance, and then
turned southwards. Only eleven days after they had left
Damascus, they fell in with a troop of camel-mounted infantry,
who, to their great relief, proved to be Sherifians. These showed
them true Arab hospitality, and gave them food and ammunition
to enable them to reach Akaba.
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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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