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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎108r] (224/834)

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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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69 —
were Hashid and Bekil. Of the Beni Abs two thirds were on
his side and one third with the enemy. The Turks in the Beni
Abs country, numbering about 1,500 men with twenty guns, could
only obtain their supplies through the Waazat tribe, from Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mur, being surrounded on all other sides. The Waazat under
Ahmed Basha ibn el-Heij were co-operating with the Turks in
Hajur, where they were opposed by Idrisi forces under Ali
' ubran el-Ghashmi of the Hashid. Ibn el-Heij is believed to
have written lately to Nasir Mabkhut, offering to desert to Idrisi
if the latter supplied him with money. He appears to be at
personal enmity with Ibn Thawab, who commands an Arab force
with the Turks in the Abs country (see Bulletin 47 , p. 168).
The Beni Jama were until lately divided between Idrisi and the
enemy, but have now nearly all come over to Idrisi. Their
sheikh, Ahmed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , an uncle of Abdullah Suleiman Habash (see
above), has been captured by the Turks and taken to the Abs
country. The Beni Marwan who are with Nasir Mabkhut are
said to be good fighters.
Idrisi told Major Reilly that to the Hashid and Bekil he
pays $13| a month per man, out of which they buy all their
rations except some flour, grain or rice. To every twenty-five
men there is one asif to whom $11 extra a month'are paid, and
to every 200 men there is one sheikh who gets $40. Nasir
Mabkhut receives $700 a month, and several of the other
important sheikhs $300 or $200 each.
The Hashid and Bekil sheikhs said that they trusted Idrisi
and Said Mustafa—the latter is generally respected—but that
the rest of Idrisi’s people were dishonest, including Sherif Hassan
abu Mismar, whose business it was to distribute the rations.
There is considerable ill-feeling between the hillmen and the
local tribesmen, and while the former complain of the bad
distribution of food, the latter are dissatisfied because they
receive no pay.
The Zaraniq are expected to co-operate in the near future
with Idrisi (as they did in the autumn of 1915). Munasir
Saghir, of Taif (about fifteen miles south of Hodeidah), one of
their most important sheikhs, has sent an agent to Jeizan to
discuss a plan of campaign, while Said Mustafa has been deputed
to proceed to the port of Jah to meet Sheikh Hassan ibn Yahya
Fashiq, chief of the southern section of this turbulent tribe.
There is some reason to believe that they are acting in agreement
with Sheikh Mohammed Hasan
Yemen.
It is reported from Aden that the Yali, accompanied by 100
Turks and 500 Arabs, is making a tour of inspection of all the
court-houses in Yemen, and that Ali Said Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. has sent an
escort to Mawiyah to bring him to Lahej. Thirty camel loads of
gun and rifle ammunition reached Lahej from Mawiyah in the
middle of January. The Turks in Yemen appear to be

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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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