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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [31v] (71/834)
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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458 —
NOTES.
Tekrit.
The news o£ Greneral Maude s capture of lekrit, the birthplace
of the great Saladin, is only less welcome than that of the
occupation of Gaza and most of southern I alestine by General
Allenby. Tekrit is the northern frontier town of the
Baghdad district on the Mesopotamian bank of the Tigris and the
last settlement of any importance on either bank for over 100
miles as one ascends the river. Beyond it, on the northward
road, lies almost continuous steppe desert, with rare spring or well
water, as far as Shura, the first real village, which is less than
thirty miles south of Mosul. Qalah Sherghat, the ancient Asshur,
where a German expedition has been excavating for nearly twenty
years, lies over sixty miles above Tekrit. It has been developed
by the Germano-Turk command into a considerable road-station,
but, like all the Tekrit-Mosul road, it can be harried by the Jerba
Shammar from el-Hadr, and is surrounded by desert. We can
now close the caravan track from Tekrit to Hit, which has been
developed of late by the Turks, and they can only open another,
and considerably longer one (over 100 miles) from Hit to Qalah
Sherghat by conciliating or terrorising the Shammar. The
Duleim, hitherto their allies, also range in these parts. Tekrit itself
is a place of some 5,000 inhabitants, who live of their gardens
and the profits of rafting trade downstream and the ferry to the
left bank of the Tigris. They have numerous primitive river-
craft. In the wars of the 11th to the 13th century armies often
chose Tekrit as their point of passage.
More about Shahturs.
Later Intelligence Summaries from the Mesopotamian
Expeditionary Force supplement the information given on p. 422.
It appears that Birejik is building shahturs in great numbers,
though Jerablus is still the general assembling yard. They are
towed back by man power, after finishing their trip, a deserter
having seen forty a day being dragged up stream. On September 2 ,
there were seventy-five pairs of ordinary shahturs in the yard
at Jerablus, and also four designed to carry especially heavy
weights. An agent, considered “fairly reliable,” states that he
left Jerablus on September 2 , in a convoy of twenty-five shahturs
carrying 250 infantry, ammunition, supplies and entrenching
tools. They reached Hit on September 19. Yon Miicke is said
to be now at Meskineh.
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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.
- 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.
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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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