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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [263r] (534/834)
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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— 329 —
2,^3
Dawasir to the point where it becomes
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ranya. It
is important to note that it was about this time that Khalid
was appointed Emir of Khurma by the Sherif, whose overlord
ship was only challenged when Khalid seceded and the Wahhabis
found themselves in the majority.
In a report from Jeddah dated September 7, it is stated
“ it is fairly certain ” that the Ateiba, Subai, Buqum and
Dawasir elements situated in the districts of Wadis Khurma,
Turaba, Subai and Ranya have been nominally subject to the
Sherif of Mecca for the last fifteen years.
The rival powers of Mecca, Nejd and Hail during the last
hundred years have tried in turn to bring these districts under
their rule, but success has chiefly fallen to Nejd. The great
Saud, who ruled, almost unchallenged, from the Euphrates to the
Red Sea, subjected the tribesmen of these districts, and to Nejd
they belonged until the ignominious flight of the Saud family to
the Eastern Coast in 1891. The new Rashidite power then laid
claim to them—a claim which the Emir of Mecca was not slow to
rebut. The dispute seems to have dragged on till the fall of the
Rashids in Nejd in 1902, when the Turks placed the districts
under the Emir of Mecca, who sent Sherif Sultan ibn
Raja
King
to
Turaba as his representative. The influence of the Meccan
Government has always been somewhat restricted by the
Wahhabi sympathies of a considerable section of the inhabitants,
and also by the familiar Arab preference for authority remote—
where authority must be conceded—in this case that of Nejd,
the town of Turaba being only a hundred miles distant from
Mecca.
Our information is too slight to justify a final opinion as to
the rights and wrongs of these tribal questions ; for the present
we can only record such evidence as is brought to light, in the
hope that its sum total will eventually provide the material for
a just appreciation.
ARABIA.
North-West.
Intelligence.
Northern Area.
Useful demolitions were carried out on the railway between
Jerdun and Anaza, on or about August 20, and this section of
the line still (September 5) remains cut. Emir Zeid reports that
the Turks occupied Tafila on September 3. No resistance was
offered.
Lieut.-Colonel R. C. Buxton, who commanded the detach
ment of the Imperial Camel Corps which accomplished the
destruction of Mudawwara in August {see page 279), has now
sent in a detailed report of the operation. He reached his
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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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