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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎73v] (155/834)

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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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the rule o£ the Turks, and said that all their efforts would have
been in vain if civil war followed on the removal of the restrain-
ins: Ottoman hand. .
As we have long suspected, he has ambitions towards seeing
his father in the position of Caliph and feels strongly that the
Arab nation will never advance until it has treed itself from t le
religious domination of Constantinople. He fully realizes the
obstacles in the way and is not at all inclined to rum the success
of his scheme by any rash or premature action.
1. I bn Sand vis a vis the Turks and Hejaz Government.
The Emir showed very plainly that he dislikes Ibn Sand
and is profoundly distrustful of his intentions.
His view was that Ibn Sand had, up to the presenb time,
played a clever game which had been successful in deceiving us
as to his real aims. He probably liked us, and he certainly
disliked the Turks, but, in spite of that, he had realised that it
was to his interest to keep in with them and the Rashid secretly,
for, once they had disappeared from the Hejaz, King Husein
would be the most powerful man in Arabia and his own schemes
would be thwarted. This contingency was more to be feared by
him than any danger from the English or the Turks.
Basing his policy on these considerations, he had_ secretly
squared Ibn Rashid and the Turks and then made his tieaty
with us. What has been the result ? He had been consistently
inactive, pleading lack of money and arms while all the time he
was helping the enemy by allowing supplies to pass from the
East to Hail. Emir Abdullah was certain that he was in direct
communication with Fakhri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. at the present time, and under
took to try and intercept his messengers as proof. He did not
explain why he had not already done so.
Ibn Sand had endeavoured to play the same game with King
Husein as he had with us. East year he .had publicly alluded in
the mosque at Bureidah to the Sherif’s revolt, hailing him as the
saviour of the Arabs and exhorting everyone to join the Holy
Cause against the Turks. Secretly, however, he had instigated
his Imams to preach a counter propaganda. His letters to the
King had throughout been extremely friendly in tone and well
calculated to impress anyone who was not on his guard. They
were all a part of his policy of deceit, but were partially inspired
by fear.
The crowning proof of Ibn Sand’s insincerity was contained
in his replies to two letters which the Emir had sent him, the
first in March 1917, and the second after Ibn Rashid had reached
Medain Saleh. The Emir was unable to produce copies of
these letters, but one morning wrote down, in the presence of
Colonel Wilson and myself, the gist of the first. Its translation
runs as follows :—
“ Let it be known to my brother the Imam that I am here
as one of the best allies [supporters] to him viz, in what would
be in the interest and for the welfare of the Arab community

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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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