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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [24v] (57/834)
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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— 446
slants in from north-east. A gorge called Ruwei el-Hasak runs
into the pass from the south and is held by a Turkish post.
Another post guards the northern mouth of the pass. Bir Nasif
station lies about five miles farther on the left bank of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hauidli. It was not actually seen by Lieut. Clayton, who
could only get a general view up and down from a point a little
beyond it to the south. The line continues along the left bank of
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh, rising gradually to Bowat station. There are
scrub vegetation and some well grown trees in the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
; but
more than that Lieut. Clayton could not see. He states that in
the hills along this stretch of the railway, especially near Stabl
Antar, there is a surpiising amount of water, which, if Abdullah’s
Arabs were more enterprising and disciplined, would make the
establishment of bases within raiding distance quite easy.
Shehab Family.
The news that two young officers from Hasbeya, of the
Moslem branch of the Shehab family, who were taken prisoners
at Beersheba, wish to throw in their lot with the Arab Cause
(they state that they have long been members of a Secret anti-
Turk Committee), recalls memories of a time when the Shehabs,
led by the famous Emir Beshir of the Lebanon, were our very
gxxxl allies. That was in the days of Sir Sidney Smith, Ibrahim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, and the siege of Acre, nearly eighty years ago. But, while
we welcome these recruits to the Arab Cause,'we must not imagine
that they will bring in with them any important Lebanon or
anti- Lebanon elements. The Shehabs, both Moslem and Maronite,
aie a ruined family without influence now-a-days; and the
Moslem part of it has been in 1 urkish service for some
generations, occupying minor administrative and clerical posts.
As the Syrian Personalities” volume will show, some of its
members have been put by the Arab Committees on their “ Black
List.
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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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