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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [45r] (98/834)
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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481
commands all approach whether by sea or land. Jeizan has no
nearer water-supply than holes dug in the bed of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Jeizan
about three miles north-east. It stands on a small promontary
protected by a parallel reef some 150 yards out at sea. Inland
o£ the village lies a belt of mud flats some three miles across and
six miles in length. Beyond this stretches level cultivated
country up to distant hills. Our officers visited a village,
es-Sowana, about four miles east of Jeizan, and found it had
good water from twenty-foot wells. The situation of Sabbia,
twenty-three miles north-east and at the foot of two sugar-loaf
hills, could be made out.
Aden News.
The Aden Field Force sent out a. strong reconnaissance to
the Turkish lines at Jabir on November 22, reaching these at
dawn. In spite of vigorous resistance the enemy, who had eight
guns, was driven out and his defences were destroyed. His
total casualties were about fifty, including many dead left on the
ground. Our casualties were one British officer killed and
twenty-eight Indians, killed and wounded. Our reconnoitring
force then returned to its own lines.
Jauf and the Wadian.
In correction of certain statements made in our No. 33
(1916) pp. 502-3, Mr. Douglas Carrnthers, Hon. Secretary,
U.Gr.S., who has been working upon the late Captain Shakespear’s
MSS. for the past two years, and plotting the general cartographic
data for northern Arabia, sends the following note:—
“ Shakespear’s route from Haiyyaniya to Jauf was across
belts of sand for the first sixty-five miles ; for the next 120 miles
it was in and out of Nefud or ‘ along depressions and low hills
at foot of Nefud,’ until he reached the open, level plain which
lies immediately to the south of the Jauf depression.
Musil’s volcanic tract about the headwaters of the wadis
forming the Wadian, is away to the north of Jauf, half-way
between Jauf and Jebel Anaza. This Harrah evidently does not
extend much further east, otherwise Leach man would be sure to
have noted it. Aylmer and Butler probably crossed the edge of
it between the Wadis Gharuba and Ugrah—western affluents of
the Arar—for they noted the ‘ ground covered with black rocks,
which renders travelling somewhat difficult.’ This point is about
sixty miles due east of the point where Musil records it.
Between Hazil and the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Khar is ‘rough stony ground,’
and there is a steep 150 feet drop into the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
bed.”
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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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