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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [394v] (797/834)
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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Hejaz.
From Jeddah we have recently received reports of attacks
on caravans and travellers proceeding from Jeddah to Mecca.
On January 27 a Sherif Abdul Rahim, who was conveying money
for the Arab Government, was attacked near Bahra by Bedouin
of the Ateibah tribe, two of his escort and five of the attackers
being killed. The convoy was only saved, it is said, by the
timely arrival of a party under the Kaimmakam of Mecca, who
had been sent out to meet it.
At the middle of January the average value of the gold
pound sterling at Jeddah was 142 piastres Egyptian, and 150 to
155 piastres Turkish, and 13 to 14
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
Protests continue to arrive from King Husein against his
subsidy being paid to him in notes and against the high rupee
rate at which they are issued to him. Emir Abdullah recently
pointed out to the British Agent that the Hejaz was suffering
a double loss, firstly, the reduction of the subsidy and, secondly,
the reduction of the number of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
per pound sterling after
rupee notes had been adopted as the medium of payment
“ The expenses of Medina alone/’ said Emir Abdullah,
“ amount to £35,000 per month, and the administration of the
country has therefore become impossible.”
The Harb tribe is said to be still giving trouble to the King.
He recently invited the head sheikhs of the tribe to meet him,
but they said they would refuse so long as their pay was in
arrear.
Emir Ali left Mecca for Medina by the eastern route via
Safeinah on February 1 with an escort of 400 men, and arrived
safely at his destination. He appears to have given out previously
that he would proceed by steamer to Yenbo and thence to
Medina, and, in order to complete the bluff, sent 600 men to
Tenbo for the ostensible purpose of acting as his escort. He
also seems to have made a second misleading announcement to
the effect that he would travel by the Rabugh land route, and it
is reported that the tribes waited for him en masse on the two
roads he did not take with a view to repeating the capture of
booty they made when he travelled from Medina to Mecca (see
page 14).
The 600 men sent to Yenbo were ordered to proceed inland
to join Ali at Medina, but they found the local tribes had closed
the road, and they were therefore compelled to return to Yenbo.
Sani Effendi Lackany, the financial expert, sent on behalf
of the British Government to the Hejaz (see page 5), has arrived
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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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