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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎290r] (588/834)

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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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which produced a surplus o£ over L.T. 80,000, will accrue, of
course, to the new government, the above total of disbursements,
less some L.T. 40,000 receipts from local taxation, etc., which
the King should be equally well able to collect, represents the new
state’s total loss of revenue, according to the figures given to us
from Constantinople. It is needless to point out the immense
discrepancy between that total and the King’s, estimate of a deficit
of £120,000 per mensem. Until, however, we have further infor
mation we cannot be sure either that the Constantinople figures
include all payments, religious and other (they represent probably
those only made directly out of the Imperial Treasury), or that
the King’s estimate took account of all possible post-war receipts.
The Constantinople figures, however, may be taken as a
safe general indication of what civil taxation, direct and indirect,
may be expected to yield annually in Hejaz. Under the head of
direct taxation we have L.T. 40,917 : under that of indirect
taxation we have the customs L. 1. 85,791 and Postal Receipts,
L.T. 6,946, together making a total administrative revenue of only
L.T. 133,654. We shall have to make further enquiry whether
the Emirs used to collect direct and indirect dues on their own
account, and if so to what amount; and also whether the above
sum of customs receipts represents the total collected, or only the
total remitted to Constantinople : for we know that the product
of the Jiddah customs used to be assigned, either wholly or in
part, to the city of Mecca. Lastly, the Meccan Emirs had a
Privy Purse largely supplied by revenues from family properties
in Hejaz, Egypt and elsewhere. Before so complicated a matter
is finally settled, it will probably be necessary to have jt exam
ined by a financial commission, which must pursue enquiries both
at Constantinople and in Hejaz.
D.G.H.
L
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THE IKHWAN AND THE WAHHABIS.
Mr. H. S. J. B. Philby contributes the following statement:—
“ The note which appeared under the above heading on p. 340
of the Arab Bulletin, is open to serious criticism on points of
fact and aptly illustrates the tendency of Arabs everywhere to
create facts to suit their prejudices. A Shammari speaking on
the subject of the Ikhwan once said to me epigrammatically
enough : Ma hum jaiyin min allah wa chin hum chilab —‘ they be
not come from Grod, in sooth they be curs. the Juhaina A
obviously thinks the same. Give a dog a bad name and if you
know no facts against him, invent them.
Elsewhere I have tried to give a reasoned account of the
Ikhwan movement and here I only propose to follow the note
above referred to sentence by sentence with counter statements
of fact.

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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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