File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎256r] (520/834)

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Turli s Cainpaign against the Shammar.
1 Q! 7 lA ! r ' re P° rfcs > under date June tha P in November
.4? de le£t Dhari ibn Tawala, the chief of the Aslam Shammar,
m 11 alar, with orders to remain there and block the route to
-Hail. He paid him three months’ allowance in advance, and, in
C A 0 f;i im ci tl0n Wlth I ^ v n Saud ’ arran ged that Dhari should harry the
Abda Shammar Dhari was to write a monthly letter reporting
progress. Mr. Philby reports that, a month later, Dhari wrote
to Him from bafwan, and it appears that before leaving Hafar he
signed a pass for about five hundred camel-loads of goods which
passed through his blockade to Hail.
Later, on July 10, Mr. Philby points out the real significance
ol Dhari s move from Hafar. It appears that when Mr. Philby,
Ibn baud and Dhari were together, the Emir took Dhari into
Ins confidence with regard to Turki’s contemplated attack on the
Abda and binjara and charged him on no account to leave
Halar; and if the Shammar retired before Turin, to cut off their
retreat. Dhari, who, it appears, had provisionally accepted
rnendly overtures from the Sinjara shortly after Mr. Philby’s
departure for Dawasir, was loth to go to war with the Shammar
the s P here o£ operations. The result was that
the Abda, withdrawing before Turki’s advance on the Aiibba wells,
leached, unmolested, the Bashuk and Hidaqa wells south of Lina.
n i n U i 1 p ?P ued the Shammar to Bashuk, to find that they
had tied to Lma, three days distant. The Bashuk wells could
not supply the needs of Turki’s force, and he, therefore, returned
to Apbba, and thence to Bureida, declining the risk of a march
to Lma, with only the inadequate watering-place of Mardhuma
between Thus ended the first phase of Ibn Sand’s campaign
against the outlying Shammar.
Elsewhere, Mr. Philby writes under date July 11 :—
. U Turki opened the anti-Shammar campaign about the
eginmng of Ramadan. He concentrated at Artawiya with six
bairaqs (nominally one thousand apiece), supplied by the Ikhwan
or Artawiya, Ghat-Ghat, Fureithan, and contingents from Riyadh
Rharj, Dareiya and Dhruma, with, perhaps, other oddments ”.
Ibn Saud and the Ateibah.
t , Fr° m Wuyajqir M r PhiJhy telegraphed on August 18
that Manahi Ibn Heidhal, Ibn Ameidi and Ibn Buqeiyan had
arnyedm lbn Saud s camp. They have made up their quarrel
with the ikhwan and have come in to declare allegiance, and pay
taxes, to Ibn Saud. The two first named went to see the King
m December last to complain about the affair at Ghat-Ghat (see
p. iy;. it is significant that these men should now seek to
ingratiate themselves with Ibn Saud. The first fled to Heiaz
territory to escape the Wahhabis, and the second is, presumably,'
a son of the man slain by Sultan ibn Bijad, the Wahhabi