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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [234r] (476/834)
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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invitation to the King to join in a combined assault on his enemy.
The King has manfully resisted the temptation to dally with this
project, and has advised the Ajman delegates to apply to the
British representative at Koweit for advice and instructions,
reminding them that his policy and ours are identical.
As for Ibn Rashid, his patience would seem to be exhausted.
He has apparently abandoned all hope of receiving the longed-
for guns from the Turks; and the last of the pro-Turk Emirs
has made overtures—timid and halting—to Abdullah. He cannot
be ignorant of the approaching crisis at Khurma, and his move
ments in the near future are of the utmost importance in this
connection.
ARABIA.
North-West.
Intelligence.
Northern Area.
Nuri Shaalan, though not for the first time (see No. 41,
p. 55), has pledged himself to support the Arab movement. His
message to King Husein, dated August 8, backed up by the
concentration of his forces in the vicinity of the railway, is full
of promise for the future. Nuri says :—
“ Yesterday I arrived at the headquarters of your victorious
army at Abu Lissal, to co-operate in the sacred jihad Your
Majesty has proclaimed against the Turks, who deem it lawful
to shed Mohammedan blood. Ask God to grant us success, for
the benefit of the nation, and to assist me in doing good work,
so that I may gain Your Majesty’s kindly approbation.”
King Husein, who has given Nuri £5,000 from his subsidy,
responds:—
“I have received your message with pleasure, and welcome
you with open arms. Your adhesion to the Arab Cause is a
good omen for the future of all the Arabs, and is a cause of
pride to me personally. My sons are your sons. May God
preserve you, and may your presence refresh the eyes of the
people and the country.”
On the morning of August 8, Mudowara station was carried
by a brilliant assault, and the garrison overwhelmed. The Turks
lost thirty-five killed, and six officers and one hundred and forty-
six men—including twenty-six wounded—were captured. A
considerable quantity of military stores, including two guns and
three machine guns, was seized. The attackers had one officer
and six men killed, and two officers and eight men wounded.
The destruction wrought in this area was most thorough. A
large steam-pump, a windmill-pump, a water-tower with its
tanks, and two wells, seventy-five feet in depth, were ruined.
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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’
- Pages
- 195r, 234r, 353v
- Author
- al-Hāshimī, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī
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- IOR/L/PS/10/658
- Title
- File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
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- 234r
- Author
- Sha'lan, Amir Nuri
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