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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [89r] (186/834)
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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Ihe break in the line between Hadiyah and Jedaha, reported
above, has now been repaired, but very badly owing to shortage
o£ nuts and other material. Sherif Abdullah has again attacked
the railway south of Hadiyah, and reports that 3,000 rails and
seven culverts were destroyed ; twenty of the enemy were
killed and thirty captured.]
NOTES.
The Ansariyah.
It is reported that the Mutessarif of Latakia, Reshid Talih
Bey, left for Jebele on January 4 with 100 gendarmes and
proceeded thence to Kerdaha. Here he collected 200 Kalbieh
volunteers and set out to punish the Karahla tribe {see 1917
Bulletins, p. 341) who have revolted and are harbouring deserters
and criminals. The expedition does not appear to have been
successful.
Aden.
The Fadli Sultan, Husein ibn Ahmed, has written to
Aden expressing his readiness to meet Major Reilly at Shukra
or elsewhere, and asking that a doctor may be sent to him as he
is very old and sick. This letter indicates a marked change of
attitude on the Sultan’s part {see Bulletin 56, p. 305.)
The Arab levies are said to be deserting from Ali Said
Pasha’s army. According to reports reaching Aden from the
Yemen, Mahmud Nadim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
is coming down to Lahej.
Yemen.
A force of about 1,000 Zeidis has reached Ibb from the
North, accompanied, according to rumour, by the Imam s son.
Sheikh Mohammed Hassan (of Mirab), in a letter to the Aden
Resident, states that the Imam is secretly assisting the anti-
Turkish movement, and has sent this force to co-operate with the
British when the latter attacked Lahej. ft is reported fiom
Kamaran, however {a) that he has recently supplied the Turks
with ammunition, and ( 5 ) that he has suggested to ihe Yali that
they should evacuate the Yemen and retire to Medina, and has
offered to assist them in doing so.
Sheikh Mohammed Hassan reports that Yahya ibn Yanya
esh-Shaif has made his peace with the Vali, who has paid him
large sums of money ; but we have no confirmation of this from
other sources.
I dr is is Campaign.
According to information supplied by H.M.S. “Fox,” Nasir
ibn Mabkhut arrived at Idrisi’s camp at Midi on January 9, and
was placed in command of one half of the army. At that time
the main Turkish force in the neighbourhood of Loheiyah was
at Zahirah, about eight miles inland. On the 11 th the coastal
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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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