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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎229r] (466/834)

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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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been taken to organise a rising within the town. The able-bodied
male population is estimated at a thousand. Eye-witnesses deny
the report p. 244), that Bedouins supply the Turks with
tood. If any grain were offered for sale, it would be snapped up
at once by the civil population, who are in straits.
[Late News.—Northern Area .—On July 26, the Turks
attacked and occupied l abia el-Hamraat a cost of six men killed
and seventeen wounded. An Arab counter-attack, made the
following day, was unsuccessful. A convoy of fifty camels, and
from two hundred and fifty to three hundred men and a machine
gun company reached Maan on July 28. A satisfactory flow of
deserters continues to come in—twenty-two were dealt with
between July 28 and 30.
Southern Area .—Sherif Pasha’s presence in Mecca confirms
the report on page 272, of the fall of Dauqa. Leaving a detach
ment in the south on outpost duty, he has reported himself to
King Husein with the remainder of his force, in the hope of
joining in the Khurma venture.]
NOTES.
Abdul Hamid and Ibn Rashid.
In the light of a later telegram from Jiddah, it appears that
the affair reported on page 261 was not the complete success
claimed by Sherif Abdullah. The hostile party numbered forty-
three men, under Abdul Hamid Bey. Of these, only the leader,
another officer named Ali Khalil, and five men, were killed.
The full story is not yet to hand. Sheikh Hedeiban el-Geheishi,
the leader of the Sherifians, reports that he captured the tents
and rifles of the whole party, but only the officers and a few
men were slain, the rest making off on their camels. Probably
Hedeiban’s men abandoned the pursuit so soon as plunder offered.
It is noteworthy that the sheikh describes the enemy as Muzeinat
and Mugheir Harb, not as Turks.
The King has handed over all the documents captured from
Abdul Hamid. They have just reached Cairo and are being
translated. One is a letter from Ibn Rashid to Abdul Hamid,
protesting his loyalty to the Turkish Government, and repudiating
any suggestion that his departure from Medain Salih was an
escape. Why should he escape from the Government with
whom he was on the best of terms? He says that the road to
Koweit has been blocked for two months past, and that a caravan
which set forth from Medina some time ago, was waylaid and
looted by Sherifian Arabs (see p. 245). Sheikh Hedeiban reports
that he captured letters addressed to Ibn Rashid and the Turkish
authorities, but no such letters have yet reached the King, who
is making enquiries about them.

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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.

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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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