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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎204r] (416/834)

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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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supply them and make effective use of their enthusiasm, it is
rather t;o our advantage than otherwise that Maan should continue
to strain enemy supplies and transport and to keep a considerable
force echeloned along the line of communications from Amman.
Troops so employed suffer much in health and temper from the
insecurity around them, the summer heat and the shortage of
water. Meanwhile every effort is being made to reinforce Feisal’s
regular army, and Arab recruiting has been going well of late.
There is difficulty, however,, in inducing trans-Jordan refugees,
e.g. the Saltiyeh, to enlist except for operations in their own
particular districts.
A British air-raid, carried out by fifteen machines on the
station, camps and aerodrome at Amman on June-23, had success
ful results.
A survey party, sent in May to fix astronomically various
points on the railway between Maan and Tebuk, has successfully
accomplished its task—a most important cartographical gain.
Southern Area.
We have heard little of importance, beyond what is contained
in the reports dealt with separately on page 223. A telegram
from Sherif Abdullah announces that, on June 21, a party of his
carried out extensive demolitions between Seil Matara and Meshed
stations. He claims 600 rails over a stretch of about five kilo
metres and two large culverts. Also a Turkish intermediate post
was burnt.
General.
Ho further news has reached us from Khurma, and indeed,
no statement of the particular situation there, which caused King
Husein suddenly to demand guns and rifles for Mecca, has ever
come in. A reinforcement of eighty-two men, however, with two
old Turkish guns and two machine-guns, was despatched from
Mecca on June 13, and that was about all the King could send.
His forces are, of course, all up in the north quite out of
reach, and there is no doubt that Taif and Mecca lie dangerously
open to attack from Central Arabia or from the south. The
force of 800 or so Bedouins sent up originally to Khurma
W as commanded by Sherif Hamud ibn Zeid, younger brother of
Sherif Shakir. Khalid, the rebel Sherif at Khurma, is of the
Abadila clan, and a former friend and close adherent of the ruling
family in Mecca.
Sheikh Husein Mubeirik, of the Zobeid Harb, is still in the
hills behind Rabugh and leading the life of an outlaw. According
to Sheikh Mohammed Areifan (who is, to a certain extent, his
man for tribal reasons), he sits on the fence, unwilling to break
with the Turks, because he understands that on the same fence
sat or still sit, greater men than he, e.g. the late Suleiman
Rifada, of the Billi, Ibn Rashid, the Imam Yahya and lastly,

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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.

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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