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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎133r] (274/834)

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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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also a certain Sheikh Eid ibn Kahad, who is said to be Suleiman
Pasha’s cousin and was on the train with Suleiman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. when
the latter was killed. He afterwards deserted from the Turks
and is now going to Mecca with Hamid and Ibrahim. (See 1917
Bulletins, p. 513. Apparently the Eid there mentioned was not
Suleiman’s son and was not killed.)
At present the only indication of the numbers of Billi who
have now come over is the fact that Sherif Sharaf has asked to
be supplied with Turkish ammunition for about 1,200 rifles
belonging to Bedouins who have left the Turks for the King.
Sharaf’s intention is to attack the railway in two places-^-
south of el-Ula with one party and north of Medain Salah with the
other. Sherifs Hassan and Mohammed and Aziz Effendi left for
deyadah on March 9 with 900 complete charges in all. They are
to lead the southern party. Sherif Sultan left for Jeyadah on
March 14 to lead the northern attack ; the base from which this
attack will be carried out will be a place called Thurba. He took
with him two electric exploders completely fitted, one for his own
party and one for Aziz.”
Note. —The Billi have been of little use since the beginning
of the revolt and too much should not be expected from this new
concentration.
General.
A brakesman on the Hejaz railway, who deserted from
el-Ula in February, states that twelve engines were then running
between Maan and Medina. They ran over the following
sectors, returning after handing over their freight: Maan to
Mudawara, thence to Tebuk, thence to Medain Salah, thence to
Hediyah, thence to Medina. Each sector took one day to pass,
and engines often had to stop to get up steam, the wood fuel
being very poor. Before the war, the journey from Maan to
Medina was accomplished in eleven hours.
Another reliable deserter reports that five or six train-loads
of supplies have reached Medina from Maan during the last few
weeks and agun,amachinegunand 700 rifles from Meshed. Itisnow
believed that Fakhreddin has no intention of evacuating Medina.
It is reported from Yambo that, as a result of Sherif Feisal s
demolitions of the railway, all spare rails south of Maan have
been used up except 1,000 at Medina, which will be kept there
for repairs in that area. A large quantity of spare rails had been
previously brought from the Haifa—Afule radway.
Dhahri ibn Rashid, a cousin of the Emir of Hail, is now
with Sherif Abdullah. He is a pleasant, intelligent man of about
thirty-five years of age, and reputed to be a good judge of a
horse. He quarrelled with the Emir some years ago, and has
since been with Ibn Sand as one of his Emirs and more recently
with King Husein at M ecca.
ft is reported that most of the Harb have left Shenf Ah
owing to non-payment of their subsidy. Only the Beni

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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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