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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [339v] (687/834)
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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(24) The personnel of the wireless telegraph and electricity
installations, and the requisite number of railway officials
required to operate the trains, shall remain until the departure
of the last caravan, and will receive their salaries as heretofore.
(25) Sick troops in hospital who are too ill to be moved
shall be collected in one or two hospitals, and one Turkish officer
and one druggist per'hundred patients shall be retained to look
after them.
(26) Provides for medical equipment required for the journey
of the prisoners of war to the coast being taken from the Turkish
hospitals and the balance handed over to the Arabs.
(27) Provides for the safety and welfare of sick prisoners
en route to the coast.
The above terms were prepared in Turkish and Arabic,
and were signed at Bir Derwish on January 7, 1919, by the
following:—
Emir Ali ;
Captain Garland;
Ali Negib Bey (second in command of the Turkish troops);
Abdul Rahman Bey (Turkish O.C. Medina District);
Sabri Bey (O.C. Turkish Supplies) ; and
A medical officer representing the Turkish S.M.O.
It is necessary to point out that, although the Turkish
G.O.C., General Fakhri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, deputed the Turkish Commission
for the purpose of “ discussing ” the evacuation, he was not a
party to the final agreement, as he failed to comply with clause
number (2). The Commission, however, was allowed to return
to Medina, and, on their arrival there, Fakhri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was arrested
and brought to Bir Derwish.
B.— The Arab Entry.
A belated report has come to hand from El Miralai (Colonel)
Sadik Bey Yahya, D.S.O., Egyptian Army, who accompanied
the Arab troops on their entry into Medina. It appears that this
officer wrote the original report when he was at Medina in
hebruary last and handed it to one of the Emirs for despatch,
but it disappeared under suspicious circumstances and never
reached Colonel Wilson, to whom the envelope was addressed.
Sadik Bey has now provided a copy.
The report exonerates Genera] Fakhri Eddin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
from
most of the charges that have been made against him, such as
unlawful and wanton destruction of sacred and private buildings,
confiscation of property of civil inhabitants, and seizure of
municipal and other non-Government funds.
Information collected by Sadik Bey shows that the General
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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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