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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [400r] (808/834)
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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by Ibn Rashid’s men. Relations between Ibn Rashid and Ibn
Sand are said to have improved considerably of late.
News was received on March 12 that Ibn Rashid was a
Hazil (170 miles east of Janf) and had sent a messenger to Baghdac
with a letter containing a similar request to that he subm1 ^ ®
last June (see page 91 Arab Bulletin, 1919), when he desired to
make an agreement with His Majesty s Government m re urn ^
a*suit able subsidy. The political situation in Arabia has changed
somewhat since then, and an alliance with the Rashic won
of advantage from many points of view.
Asir.
It was rumoured at Zeidiyah in February that King Husem
had occupied Zahran, Beni Shahr, and the neighbourhood of
Ebhah. This must be an echo of the King s recent attempt
start a revolutionary Government at Ebhah (see page an )•
The following extracts are taken from the diary for January
of Captain Eaziluddin, Liaison Medical Officer with the Idnsi.
“ Sherif Mohammed ibn Zeid, commanding the Idnsi troops
on the Jebel Milhan front, has established 'n the Jebels
Ashraf, Daher, and Wasta, the latter due east of Jebel Milhan and
south of Jebel Hufash. His next move appears to be on tiie
Jebel Dara and Jebel Hufash. 1 ^
“ Reports from different sources show that wherever
savage Zeidi hordes have entered the Tihamah, they ave
invariably brought in their train pillage, destruction, an
desecration. Ghastly stories of the maltreatment of the peop
at the hands of these ruthless savages reach me dai y.
“ The Idrisi’s strength is not derived from his military
strength, but from the atrocities committed by the Zeidi troops .
these have brought him the support of the tribes
“ For everv Zeidi soldier killed in battle the Imam as o
nav blood money to the relatives at sixteen dollars per head.
In one of the recent fights against the Idnsi troops, a Zerdr
soldier lost his son. After the close of the fight the soldrer m
question went to his Amil and asked for the blood money but
he was told that his son was only wounded As he P^^ted^m
savinw that his son was dead, he was taken to him.
boy wounded in the chest, but still breathing. Taking his dagger
from his waist-belt he thrust it into the boy s wound, and
qualified for the blood money.’'
Captain Faziluddin states that from Jebeis Zahar and
Wasta the Idrisi forces advanced on Jebel Dara (or Adra), but the
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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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