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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎195v] (399/834)

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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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“ The cause o£ our departure from el-Medain is well known
to you We have been patiently enduring insult for a
whole year. Our very food was refused us, and we were
humiliated and oppressed in Medain under Fakhri. Every day
we were upbraided by him and by his Mamurs
11 ... . Abdel Hamid has had us guarded by night. We
asked Fakhri for riding animals and waterskins, and though
there were plenty in Medain, he refused them. We asked
permission for our force to depart when we went to our Dira,
and every night we were slaughtering one of the riding animals.
While we remained at Medain we were between Fakhri and the
others. 1 myself suffered from hunger and privation. We were
constrained to eat even bitter vetch, which we secretly bouadit
from the private soldiers, to whom it was given as forage for
their mules ”
The Emir goes on to give Rashid instructions about rejoining
him at Hail. There is only one way—by Jauf—whether the
railway be really cut or not, and passage that way will depend
on Nuri Shaalan, about whose actual politics the Emir expresses
himself doubtful. Rashid is meanwhile to keep on as good terms
as possible with the Ottoman Government with which the Emir
is not yet prepared to break : (apparently) he still hopes to get a
machine gun which Fakhri had sent to Medain (this passage is
obscure) and also to recover an Aleppine clerk, who had been
withdrawn by Abdel Hamid Bey on suspicion of communicating
information about Ottoman affairs.
The Emir further informs his agent that the British have
given Ibn Saud four q.f. guns and five machine guns; and
another reference to the same facts makes it clear that Rashid is
to use this information as a lever to get an armament for Hail
out of the Turks, before he leaves. Finally the Emir says about
his financial position :—
“ Thus we were in great distress about expenses. There is no
money here. We wrote from Hail .... as you know, and this
is a matter like fire and wood, and the money we received in
Medain at first we spent on dried dates and bitter vetch.”
We shall await a further consignment of these captured
documents before commenting on them. But it may be said that,
according to information we have received, Nuri Shaalan will let
Rashid ibn Leilah himself pass through to Hail, but proposes to
hold up any armament or supplies he may try to carry with him.
What may happen to Sheikh Abd el-Aziz Shawish and Hairi
Bey, if they accompany him (they are reported to have started,
or to be about to start, from Damascus), we do not know.

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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.

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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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