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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎224v] (457/834)

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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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264 —
and necessary to amend very materially the earlier Handbook
information which was based chiefly on Janssen. At the same
centre some fresh information has been obtained about tribes
further north and east, but it is less reliable and less detailed.
Curiously enough, the tribes of Western Palestine itself, such as
those of the Hebron district, and the nomadized fellahm who tent
between Bir Saba and Jaffa, have caused the most difficulty and
delay to the compiler. We hope, however, to have surmounted
all obstacles in a few weeks and to produce an authoritative
instalment of that complete compendium of West Asian tribal
units which is much to be desired. Baghdad has already done
great service, and lately has added to all it has produced on Irak,
a much needed account of the Southern Kurds.
Survey on the Hejaz Railway.
The work of a Survey party, sent to the Hejaz Railway,
was mentioned on p. 229. Captain Bamford, its leader, has now
returned and is working out the results. Unfortunately, owing
to difficulties of transport and some failure on the part of local
authorities to appreciate the necessity for making special arrange
ments, the party did not get farther south than Tell Shahm, and
had to confine the rest of its work to the region of which that
station, Maan and Gueira are three angles. An effort is being
made to resume the work with the special intention of procuring
an accurate determination of Tebuk, or of some kilometre point
as near it as may be. What Captain Bamford and his assistants,
however, have succeeded in doing is of great importance and very
revolutionary. It is not so much that Maan will have to be
moved about four miles south-east on our maps, as that fell
Shahm is a great deal further out of place, and that when this is
moved, the line of the railway, as now determined between those
two points over a sector of about fifty miles, looks like falling
very seriously west of its accepted position in the southern
sectors, unless it makes some unsuspected deflection to eastward
before or after Tebuk. In connection with this it may be observed
that a careful independent sketch of the railway between el-Ula
and Medina, with the country west of it, which Major Davenport
and Lieutenant Gar rood have based on many traverses, does actually
transfer the line a good deal to the west of its position on the
Wejh sheet (1 : 500,000), and, with it, the position of Medina
itself ! This may well be, for it is more than probable that such
longitude observations, as have ever been taken in the Holy City,
leave much to be desired. Between the ten or a dozen points
astronomically fixed by Captain Bamford, a number of traverses
and shots will enable a much more reliable sketch map to be
compiled than has been possible hitherto: and pending his reports,
all work at the Survey of Egypt upon the revision of the Maan
and Wejh 1:500,000 maps has been suspended. The Royal
Geographical Society will be well advised to go equallv slow with
the production of its 1:1,000,000 sheets of Arabia.

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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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