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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎119v] (247/834)

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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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escape, leaving behind them, however, a small howitzer and
sixty-five camels laden with food. Their losses in men are not
known, but the Turks are said to have had forty-six killed.
In the fighting near Bir Jedid on February 8 (see page 55)
the Turks lost fourteen killed and nine prisoners.
On February 23, Major Davenport wrote that Ibn Rashid
was in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Um Hashim, near Hediyah, and was Hying a flag
similar to that of the Sherif, whereby he had entrapped several
Bedouins. He had about 200 mounted men with him. The
Turks were reported to have established a Darb el-Arab (Arab
Bureau) at Melayha, one day’s journey east of Jebel Ohod and
were paying Bedouins at the high rate of L.T. 20 a month.
They had already enrolled 400 of the Huteim. Most of the
Juheinah had disappeared from Abdullah’s camp and were said
to be dissatisfied with him ; according to a later report, they have
made an organised raid on his supply dump. This was doubtless
done as a protest and to secure the payment of their salaries
which are said to be in arrears. There are indications that
enemy efforts to seduce the Bedouins from their allegiance to
King Husein are meeting with a certain measure of success, but
the distribution of gold is the most effective form of propaganda
which either side can undertake.
Major Davenport telegraphs that Sherif Abdullah ibn
1 hawab, one of the best of the Bedouin Commanders, made a
successful attack on Jedaha on March 12 , capturing prisoners
and camels.
General.
Sherif Ieisal’s army was recently estimated at about 18,000
men apart from trained troops. It included 5,500 of the Beni
Sakhr (Zebn, Chaabineh, Ibn Zuheir and Khurshan sections),
3,000 Huweitat (Abu layi, Ibn Jazi, Naimat and minor sections),
1,200 Ageyl (from Central Arabia), 2,300 Beni Atiyah, 700
Serahin and 600 Druses. In addition there were some 3,500 of*
the Tafila and Kerak Arabs and about 1,500 from other small
tribes.
t - i o ~ Abdullah tbere were about 2,000 Ateiba, 3,00(
Juhemah, 2,500 Anazeh, and small sections numbering 300-50C
each ot the Hai-b, Huteim and Moahib. The actual numbers non
m the held are probably less than half the above, which represem
potential strengths.
Sheiif Ali usually has about 7,000 Bedouins in the field
drawn exclusively from the Harb and Ateiba.
From All’s camp it is reported that 500 refugees who hac
been expel ed from Medina have arrived at Bir el-Mashi; and
that the railway from Medina to Bowat is nearly clear of Turkish
troops. J

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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.

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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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