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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎184v] (377/834)

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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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News from Kerak, up to May ^9, states that, besides the
thirty gendarmes already there, 150 infantry arrived from
Damascus, via Kutrani, on May 26. They brought a mountain
gun and four machine guns. Probably they are a detachment of
the 74th Regiment.
Southern Area.
Sherif Abdullah has reported that, on or about June 5, his
detachment, under Fauzan el-Harith, attacked the railway near
Toweira, and wiped out two enemy posts, killing thirteen and
capturing twelve of the defenders. The} T cut 1,000 (?) rails,
blew up four culverts and destroyed many telegraph poles, and
also the engine and four trucks of a water train. The report
adds that no recent demolitions in the southern area have yet
been made good by the Turks. These include apparently a new
break by a party of Sherif All’s force operating between Medina
and Mukheifur (?) about June 3. The number of rails claimed
to have been cut is obscure in the telegram ; perhaps it is 1,700.
North of this region, between Mabrak en-Naqa and Dar el-
Hamra, Sherit Sheraf has been exploding charges at three
points, and has cut a large culvert. He broke up an enemy
repair gang, killing one, and capturing six. This appears to
have taken place about the end of May.
It is now reported that, about May 18, an irregular force of
Beni Mohammed Harb, left by Sherif Abdullah encamped about
three miles from the railway north of Bowat, was attacked by
the 1 urks and lost over eighty camels and about the same number
of sheep, as well as two men killed and three captured. The
Bedouins for their part killed five and captured four of the
enemy. I he I urks brought a mountain gun and a machine gun
into action.
A 1 urk of Balikesr, who deserted from el-Ala. on April 25,
states that for one and a hall months previous to that date no
through train from south or north had reached el-Ala. Local
trains only ran. The garrison was on half rations. The native
population had been reduced to 600 to 700 souls. It is note-
woith\ that, out of thirty deserters from various points of the
linu, who have come lately into \\ r ejh, twenty-seven are classed
as urks, two of the balance being Kurds. But some discount
niust be allowed for a proportion of Aleppines and other north
Syrians who are so classed because they speak Turkish more
readily than Arabic, but nevertheless are Arabs.
General.
. . Husein went back to Mecca on June 5. At one of
his interviews with (Alonel Wilson—on May 31—he raised once
more very msistently the old question of his title. He based his
emand to be ' King of the Arabs” not merelv on alleoed
promises of ours, but mainly on the necessity, in our
interest, as in his, before the Moslem world and history, that

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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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