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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎139v] (287/834)

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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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Idris?s Campaign.
The operations against Jebel Kudmieh continue to be
assisted by British seaplanes, which cause intense delight to
Idrisi. They are having a great moral effect and causing many
of the Arab levies to desert the Turks. On March 22, the Idrisi
Arabs attacked the Turkish post at Abu Karsh {see p. 95),
killing eight Turks and losing two of their own men.
Nasir Mabkhut was relieved of his command before the
capture of Loheiyah, and is said to have left Midi with the
Hashid and Bekil. Idrisi apparently considers these mercenaries
unsatisfactory, and is now relying on Tehama tribesmen such as
those of Abu Arish, the Masareha, the Beni Mar wan and sections
of the Beni Abs, Beni Jama and Nashar. The inhabitants of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mur have definitely joined him, and the Boajia country,
with the port of Khoba, is now under his influence.
The Turks, meanwhile, are pushing up reinforcements from
Hodeidah and have enlisted some of the Beni Suleil in the
neighbourhood of Zeidiyah.
Yemen.
It is reported that letters from the African coast have
recently reached Ali Said Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. via Khoka. They were probably
brought by Sheikh Isa, a Danakil chief.
The Abu Has affair is again creating difficulties for the
I urks. Hassan ibn Kasim Abu Has, chief akii of the Abu
Harbah section of the Dim Mohammed, has arrived in southern
Yemen from Barat at the head of 3,000 to 4,000 tribesmen. It
appears that the Government endeavoured to conciliate the Dim
Mohammed by appointing as Kaimakam of Ibb Haji Muhsin
Abu Ras, a relative of the murdered Naqib Hassan. They have
now dismissed Haji Muhsin, and Hassan ibn Kasim, his uncle, is
accordingly preparing to raise a rebellion against the Government,
and also to overthrow Sheikh Nasir Muqbil of Mawia. He is at
present to the south of Ibb near Sayani, and has received
promises of support from the sheikhs of the Dhi Sufal district
(south-west of Ibb). I he Imam has delegated his representative
at Nadhira (east of Ibb), Seyyid Yahya ibn Mohammed esh-
Shahari, to find a peaceful solution, but the Zeidis have rejected
the Seyyid’s intervention.
Sherif Ahmed Muhsin of Behan has sent his brother, Sherif
Aasir, to Aden. The latter stated that the Sheikh of the
vhaulan et- lawal, who dwell south-east of Sanaa, and certain
Hashid chiefs have signed an agreement to co-operate against
the lurks. °
Abyssinia.
In consequence o£ the death of Negus Waldi Giorgis,
n poi ted on page 9-6, it was feared that his province of Begyemdir
nng join 1 igre in revolt. It seemed likely, indeed, that a large
part of Northern Abyssinia would declare its independence unless
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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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