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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎206r] (420/834)

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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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Shamiyah Chiefs.
King Husein lias behaved correctly about the offers of Saud
Subhan and Hamud Saadun {see p. 211), recommending both to
carry their cases in the first instance to Baghdad. The two
messengers sent by the former, named Anbar ibn Guma el-Sabah
and Anad ibn Eid el-Sherifiran, will sail for Basra, via Bombay,
early in July. As for Hamud Saadun, the King says he has a
friendly feeling for him, but rates him a man of no power or
influence. The King has, evidently, been a little hurt by our
disinclination to let him act mediator for these two chiefs, and,
very likely, he cherished no ultimate design whatever. This sort
of mediation is the most ordinary thing in the world in Arab
politics, and it cannot but have seemed somewhat strange and
ungracious of us not to accept it from the bherif.
Tribal Troubles in the Hamad.
It has been reported to Sherif Feisal that a great many
camels have been filched of late from Rowalla and Howeitat
herds, and that these tribes suspect Amarat thieves, acting under
the orders of Fahad el-Hadhdhal and Jazaa el-Mijlad, the chief of
the Zebinah sub-section and younger brother of Mohammed, the
Dahamisha sectional chief. In order to stop this thieving and
obtain redress, Audah ibn Zaal, of the Howeitat, and a Rowalla
chief are going overland to Baghdad to state a case on behalf of
their two tribes to our Mesopotamian authorities. We were not
asked to sanction their mission, but merely informed that they
were going. And, of course, we have not heard the other side
of the case. We. gather, however, that Captain Leachman, who
is with the Amarat, thinks it is six of one and half a dozen of
the other—as it usually is with Bedouin camel-thieving !
Mohammed Nasrr Mukbil.
The well known Sheikh of Mawiya is being heard ol again
as leader of a recruiting party among the Amiri and Shairi tribes,
on behalf of Ali Said Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. . He is reported to have arrived
at Dhala on May 17, and to have been joined there by a
considerable force of Turks sent up from Lahej on May 24.
But a further report says that he had gone on to Kataba, whither
the Turks were to follow him. W r e do not feel quite sure that
the motives of these movements of his are really as represented
by the Aden agents. It is quite as likely that the Turkish force
i/hunting theldawiya sheikh, as that it is co-operating with him.
Haiti and Kathiri.
The Kaiti Sultan has written to Aden, under date May 19,
that the Kathiri delegates from Singapore {see p. 90 ; but Nasir
: )lM Omar has taken the place of the first one there named) were
to leave in two days time with Seyyid Husein for the Hadra-
maut They appeared to be in earnest and willing to do all
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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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