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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎189r] (386/834)

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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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FEISAL’S army in may.
Lieut.-Col. P. C. Joyce, D.S.O., lias sent in from Aba
Lissan, under date May 31, a comprehensive report on the
operations of the Sherifian Northern Army during May. We
reproduce extracts from it here, not only because it adds details
previously unreported in the Bulletin, but also in order that
earlier discrepant information from different sources may receive
final correction Col. Joyce prefaces his report by saying that
it is most difficult to obtain a correct estimate of Turkish
casualties, and that his figures are probably very much less than
the losses actually inflicted. For the Hasa and Fareifra affairs
there are no figures available.
The report then continues, enumerating first the operations
undertaken with the Arab regular troops.
£ *-i The f ? rSt hal£ o£ the month was employed in demolishing
the railway line between Maan and Mudawara, and organising a
base at Fejeij _ (four miles south of Udruh) from which Sherif
Zeid and Nuri Bey Said were to operate against the railway line
north of Maan. This force consisted of about 1,200 regular
troops, two 18-pounder field guns, four 2‘95 mountain guns and
two companies machine guns. The French contingent also
operated with this force. On May 9 the demolition parties
operating south of Maan returned to Aba Lissan, having
.successfully completed, in the Batn el-Ghul area, demolitions
which consisted of 1,500 rails, cut on curves of minimum radius
and maximum gradient, and the escarpment destroyed.
For the last part of the above, compare pages 161 and 169.
The original construction of the permanent way between
Batn el-Ghul and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Rethm stations was the most difficult
engineering work on the whole Hejaz line. There is a fall of
over 500 feet in about five miles, which has to be effected by a
series of loops, along the face of an escarpment composed of
rotten material. The average gradient is almost one in fifty on
the main descent.
“On May 11 Sherif Zeid, operating from Fejeij with the
regular troops commanded by Nuri Bey, attacked Jerdun station.
The attack was a complete surprise, and after a somewhat feeble
resistance the garrison surrendered. Three machines, R./V.F.,
co-operated, and to the accuracy of their bombing of the Turkish
positions the Arab troops attribute their success. The French
contingent, with two mountain guns, under Capt. de Rivoyre,
also rendered valuable assistance. 150 prisoners were captured,
and also one mountain gun, three machine guns and a large
quantity of ammunition, equipment and food. Thirty of the
enemy were killed. Arab casualties—two officers and seven men
wounded. The water supply at Jerdun being completely
exhausted, the Arabs withdrew. Major Maynard accompanied
the Arab army, and the following demolitions were carried out :
two sets of points, 200 rails, seven wagons, large concrete

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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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