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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [313v] (635/834)
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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— 46 —
(h) The transference of the gendarmerie to the control of the
Administrative Council.
Note .—The gendarmerie were mainly Ageyl officered by
Turks. Being professionally guides, carriers and the like, they
were working on both sides in large numbers.
(i) All purely civilian affairs.
Note .—Systematic deportation of the population took place
early in the war, and many of the rest drifted away later. When
the Emirs entered only 600 civilians remained. Fakhri stated
that before the war the population was about 40,000, at a rough
estimate. When he took command, however, it was only 20,000.
The Proclamations.
Emin Bey, the Chief of Staff in Medina, whose surrender on
January 1 was the signal for wholesale desertion (see pages
7, 17, 59), appears to have engineered his whole conspiracy in
about twenty-four hours.
He formed a secret society among such officers as were
demoralised by the influenza epidemic and Zia’s revelations.
On December 28, they circulated a joint manifesto, signing them
selves the Central Committee.
A copy of it has now been received and translated. It is
lengthy and rambling, but states the case against Fakhri without
omitting a point. It begins and ends “ Let us wake up ! ” and
its line of argument in brief is as follows :—
u The recent armistice is tantamount to peace. By it
all Arabia is lost to us ; our army at home is already being
demobilised and the Arab Government has begun its work of
reconstruction. The Entente have won so completely that
we can do no good by holding on.
“ Our present plight is due to Fakhri’s obstinacy and
untruthfulness. He has blundered all through, from the
fatal moment when, in the middle of 1917, the Maan
concentration was split up at his instance. How he asks
for an Imperial irade, although there is no possible justifi
cation for one, seeing that we are under a constitutional
government, which is responsible for peace and war. Even
if he got an irade he would continue his stubbornness.
Our Government has done all that is possible in the
circumstances, having retained the essentially Turkish pro
vinces of Kars, Batoum and Ardahan. In fact, we have
really lost only men and money like all the countries engaged
in the war, for the Arabs would have become independent
of us eventually in any case.
As it is, they will not remain our enemies, brothers as
they are in religion and history; look, already, at the
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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.
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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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