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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎193r] (394/834)

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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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commander of the Sherifian force, met his death through
the trickery of some of the Beni Zeid. In the first action
that took place between the two forces eight of the Beni
Zeid tribe were killed. They then made overtures to Sherif
Sultan el-Abadila and asked him to a reception in his honour,
having told the Turks that they would seize him. To this
Sherif Sultan proceeded, with only a few personal followers.
When he saw that he had been invited by treachery, he
attempted to escape, but was surrounded and killed. Some
rumours say that he met his death by his horse being shot and
he being thrown to the ground where he was picked up by the
Arabs, who afterwards killed him by inserting poison up his
nose ; others report that he was hit in the stomach and died two
days afterwards at Joz Belair. Mohammed Areifan regrets this
Sherif’s death, as he was a strong man and well able to deal wdth
the situation. He has not much opinion of his successor Sherif
Basha, and holds that, the only Sherif capable of filling this
vacancy is Sherif Mohsin, Kaimakam of Jiddah, who is w r ell
known down there and has a certain following ; but the King
says that he cannot spare him from Jiddah.
To make any headway in that direction the King should
have a force of at least 2,000 rifles ; then informant thought the
Beni Zeid and Belair would all come over to him. To-day,
seeing such a small force opposed to the Turks, these tribes do
not think the King has any strength behind him, and con
sequently they attach themselves to whoever gives them most
food and money. They are divided between the Turks and the
Idrisi and a certain portion of them hold a watching brief
between the two.
Mesopotamian Chiefs and King Husein.
it is a growing practice of Shamiyah chiefs, who are either
dissatisfied with financial arrangements made for them by our
authorities, or afraid to tender submission direct to us, to offer to
join King Husein, as a step to the attainment of their desires.
Obviously it is not a practice to be encouraged. Since Mohammed
ibn Mijlad of the Ainarat Dahamisha tried it on, in order to get
round our arrangement with Fahad ibn Hadhdhal, both Saud es-
Subhan, of the Shammar, and Hamud es-Saadun, of the Muntafiq,
have taken the same course. The first, who has proved quite
useless to us on the whole, is dissatisfied with his subsidy as now
reduced (see p. 201) : the second, a man of bad repute, wdio has
never come into us, though he once got as far as Suq es-Shiyuk,
evidently w 7 ants to break wdth his brother Ajeimi (who also has
written to King Husein saying he would like to make his peace
but fears the hostility of our administration). The immediate
cause is stoppage of the Turkish subsidy. He has sent a
delegate, one Grhazi es-Saadun, across, who has reached Shenf
Abdullah’s camp and gone on to Yam bo and Mecca. The

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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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