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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎181r] (370/834)

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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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there is a likelihood that we shall take him at his word in
this instance and is prepared to move upon a signal from us.
My opinion is that the Ajman, who have grown weaker as a
result of their wanderings, will cave in to Ibn Saud, unless the
Shammar give them asylum or we take responsibility for them
again at Zubeir or elsewhere.
2. Ilm Rashid.
u Ibn Saud says that to capture Hail is a very big matter.
He and his forbears have been fighting for the past forty years
with this object in view, the net result being nil after alternations
of partial successes and severe disasters. Never have they been
within sight of the conquest of Hail and the Shammar. The
strength of this tribe lies in several factors which it is important
to remember. To begin with they are a single united tribe;
secondly, Ibn Rashid is himself a Shammar sheikh.
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“ Add to this that the Shammar are stiff fighters ynd are
always ready to take on superior numbers of mixed Nejd clans.
They are redoubtable antagonists and if in full force, as they
mio-ht'be were any serious attempt made upon Hail, it is very
doubtful if any combination of tribes could defeat them, at least
in or near Jebel Shammar. And failing a coup de main there
would probably ensue a desultory siege of the. town and hills.
The Turks might render relief ; and m any case, unsupported by
regular troops, a loosely held together Bedouin confederation
would soon tire of the job and break up.
“ Ibn Saud thinks that the economic lever applied by means
of a strict blockade would be the most effectual means of bringing
the Shammar over. This however, he realises, is scarcely piac-
ticable, with the A slam and other sections exempt and engaged
all the time in blockade running. If we treated ali the
Shammar as a corporate body, and refused to have an)
further relations with Ibn Tuwalah and other sections now
posing as friendly until the whole tribe submitted, there s not
the slightest doubt that the Shammar would be isolated to such
an extent that they would have no alternative but to sunendei.
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suzerainty ; and that these agents should be consulted before any
export passes are granted.
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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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