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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [403v] (815/834)
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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98 —
that the inhabitants would abandon the Idrisi, who at one
time fought against the Turks.”
The Imam undertook, in case the local inhabitants should
expel the Idrisi from their country, not to eaxct taxes from the
people of the Tihamah. He only expected their assistance in
turning out the Idrisi, and also the Christians, from Hodeidah.
The Imam, moreover, promised not to appoint Zeidi Amils
in the Tihamah, which would be left under the full and independent
control of Seyyid Abdul Qadir.
Sheikh Abdul Wahab, the Kaimmakam of Hajjariyah,
lately wrote to Aden to say that he is living in hopes that we will
come to the salvation of his country. If we have any intention
of making a forward move in the Taiz direction, he is ready to
assist and co-operate with us. In such case he expects us to send
him an official letter. He stated that there was a movement in
Sanaa against the Imam, and that internal dissensions in the
highlands were increasing and many sections of the Zeidis were
watching for an opportunity to overthrow the Imam. As his
country is outside our Protectorate, the Resident sent him a polite
reply regretting our inability to interfere there.
The Sheikh of Khokha, Mohammed Ali Othman, has in
formed the Resident that the sheikhs and notables of Zabid
district and its dependencies complained to him against the
Imamic Government. Ali Othman therefore gave the Zabid
gentry an undertaking that he would ask for 400 British soldiers
with one officer, two or three guns, and also a quantity of arms and
ammunition for arming the tribesmen.
He also got the Zabid sheikhs to sign an agreement under
which they consider themselves unitedly under the protection of
the British Government. The Sheikh asks for a reply, as, failing
our assistance, he adds, he will have to address the Italian Govern
ment.
The Resident makes the following comments :—
“ I doubt if all that is written in this letter is true. At any
rate, most of it is fiction. He is the Amil of Mokha under the
Imam. He came to Aden several times during the war to take
supplies, and he is anxious to come under our protection. His
threat to go to the Italians for help is to my mind a mere bluff,
but he is quite capable of writing to them, as the Italians had
something to do with him during the last Turco-Italian war.
He would rather be under our flag than under the Italian.”
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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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