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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎23r] (54/834)

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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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— 443
would be forthcoming for six months. He fully accepted our
formula of policy ; but how far he will, or can, act up to it
remains to be seen. The offensive must await the arrival of
arms and supplies, the assembling of fdrisi’s own tribesmen and
the enlistment of others, e.g., Hashid, in numbers which we
cannot, at present, forecast.
Om o\vly course has been guided rather by a sense of
honourable obligation than by sure and certain hope of decisive
action by Idrisi against the lurks. It is not intended that his
offensive should be directed against the Imam Yahya, unless the
latter should choose to send forces to fight side by side with
Turkish troops. Nor, since Hashid and Bekil tribesmen, and
many leading Zeidis, are among Idrisi’s proposed allies, can
the offensive be regarded as a threat to the prevailing creed of
the Yemen highlands. Should Idrisi, as he professes to desire,
advance primarily against the Turkish garrisons of northern
Yemen, his operations will be almost entirely in the Tihamah,
and he will hardly, touch Zeidi country at all. Still less will he
do so, if he should attempt to round up the Turks in Asir itself.
We are under no obligations to the Imam Yahya; but we bear
him no malice for a pro-Turk attitude, which he has been
in no good position to avoid or change ; and it is our policy to
support, rather than weaken the Zeidi Imamate, as an engine of
f overnment. Whenever we shall have settled accounts with the
urks ourselves, by expelling them with our own arms from
Lahej and the Aden hinterland generally—the only action which
can possibly decide the south-west Arabian issue in our favour—
we expect the Imamate to range itself without rancour on our
side, and to resume commercial relations with Aden.
ARABIA.
North-West.
Intelligence.
Sheriftal Forces.
There is almost nothing of importance to report about the
Sherifial forces, although certain plans are ready, and the means
to realize them have been organized and got under way. The
sanitary-condition of Akaba having improved, (no fresh case of
paracholera, which the disease is now stated to be, for five days
up to November 6 and no case under suspicion), Sherif Zeid and
his force of some 2,000 men are being transported from Wejh and
Yambo to Akaba. Arabs, guarding the Qasim road for Sherif
Abdullah, are stated to have seized a convoy of 380 sheep and
265 camels (whether laden or not is left uncertain) on its way
from Nejd to Medina. Some fresh engagement between Turks
and Arabs has taken place in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Musa, and an Arab success
is rumoured, but, as yet, not confirmed.

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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.

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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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