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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎66r] (140/834)

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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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NOTES.
Lady Anne Blunt.
The death of Byron’s granddaughter, whom we still call by
the name she had made familiar to students of Arabia, rather
than by the title, Baroness Wentworth, which latterly had
devolved upon her, removes the last of the Victorian explorers
of Arabia, except her own husband and Charles Montagu
Doughty. Until Miss Gertrude Bell went to Hail in 1914, Lady
Anne remained the only British, or indeed European, lady who
had been in Central Arabia. She died from weakness at the age
of eighty in the Anglo-American Hospital at Cairo on Saturday,
December 15. Besides her published volumes, written in
collaboration with her husband, she leaves, in MS., a book
dealing with the horse in Arab history, for which she drew on
Bedouin tradition, especially that current among the Muteir. It
is hoped that an arrangement will be made to render this book
accessible in some provisional form, pending full publication
after the war. Lady Anne had various relations with the
Arab Bureau, and took a lively interest in its activities.
Sinai Arabs.
Sherif Feisal has been doing his best to establish good relations
between ourselves and the Bedouin of Sinai and Southern Palestine.
At his suggestion the following sheikhs, who were with him, have
been sent to present themselves to our representative at Bir
Saba : Hassan Abu Abdun {see p. 20), Ibrahim Abu Rakik
(? Rakkayik, see p. 20), Salem el-Zerei, Azzam el-Hezeil, Muslem
ibn Khafira and Gaddu’ el-Sufi. He has also requested that
Sheikh Abd Rabboh Abu el-Hussein, who was formerly with the
Turks and captured by us at Khan Yunis, should be pardoned
and released.
Some of the Sinai Bedouin are still hostile, and the Sawalha
Arabs are said to have no intention of surrendering. Many,
however, have recently come in to the authorities at lor and
Abu Zenima. It is reported that Sheikh Suleiman el-Kabriti of
the Terabin tribe {see p. 147), intends to surrender as soon as
the state of his health permits.
Idrisis Campaign.
Reports from Kamaran indicate that fairly heavy fighting
has taken place in the Beni Abs country. Idrisi, who is
concentrating his forces with a view to an advance on Loheiya,
states that further reinforcements have reached Jeizan, including
contingents under Sheikh Jubran el-Ghashim, Nakib Yahya ibn
Yahyaesh-Shaif and Ibn Hebeish of Sufian {seep. 475), and from
several tribes under the control of Nasir ibn Mabkhut, such as
the ’Usaimat and the Kharif.

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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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