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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎107r] (222/834)

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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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— 67 —
The depression between the Ardh and el-Hamra system is
about three miles broad, and we were soon at the other side
passing np the slope of the Hamra range, a wide clearing
between the foothills, thickly covered with acacia shrub, leading
us in due course to a low ridge beyond which we entered the
wide plain of Ruwaidha, and at a distance of ten and a half
miles from our entry into the foothills pitched camp before the
gates of the walled village of Ruwaidha. The Hamra range is of
somewhat irregular formation, and consists of scattered groups of
ridges, the more important of which run in a more or lesscontinuos
line from north to south at some distance west of Ruwaidha, while
smaller ridges or individual peaks dot the slope round Ruwaidah,
which stands nearly 2,900 feet above sea-level and is 145 miles
distant from Riyadh. The population, which may number some
2,000 souls, is mainly of the Suhul tribe, the sole remnant of the
tribe in these parts, since the main body was driven out of its
original haunts eastward by an invasion of the Qahtan. Like
Quaiiyya and Mizal, Ruwaidha is ruled by a local Emir, and is
the administrative centre of the Hamra district, which contains
a number of small villages and qasrs scattered about among the
hills wherever water is found.
{To be continued.)
ARABIA.
North-West.
Intell'ujence.
Fakhreddin Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. is reported to have left Medina on
February 6 by a caravan route east of the railway, which he
probably joined in the neighbourhood of Hediyah. It is now
certain, however, that he has not gone to Syria, but is still in
command of the H.E.F.
A Moor from Medina, who reached Yambo on February 6 ,
reports that Fakhreddin is improving the town by straightening
and widening the streets ; houses are pulled down without com
pensation, and a women’s labour battalion has been formed to
clear away the debids. Until the beginning of December fresh
meat was fairly plentiful, but the Arab patrols then began to
watch closely all approaches to the city, and the supply of sheep
and goats ceased. In January a thousand civilians remained,
but it is believed that these were all expelled early in February.
A prisoner reports that the Manain tribe, in the neighbour
hood of Jurf el-Derwish, are Sherifian in sentiment and, indeed,
participate in Bedouin raids on the railway : but at the same
time they receive money from the Turks, to whom they give
warning of impending attacks. I he Manain are a more or less
settled tribe, and are said to number 160 families.

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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.

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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