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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [307r] (622/834)
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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MEDINA.
Introduction.
The present issue is devoted to the fall of Medina and its
sequel in so far as this has not been covered in the Bulletin
previously. ^ The information has been derived from captured
documents, interrogation of prisoners and the reports of British
officei s attached to the Hejaz forces. If anything further of in
terest transpires it will be duly recorded in subsequent numbers.
The Evacuation.
Fakhri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
The account in the last issue closed with Fakhri’s arrival
under arrest at Bir Derwish on January 10 (p. 19). The
Emirs gave him excellent tent accommodation there and he was
attended by his orderlies and a doctor from the garrison. Colonel
Bassett reached Bir Derwish on January 13 with Haidar Bey and
Miialai Ahmed Bey Lufti, the envoys. I he latter were intro
duced to I akhri without delay and in a formal interview handed
to him the Sultan’s letter ordering him to surrender Medina to
the Emir of Mecca, and explaining the disputed Clause (No. 16)
m the Armistice conditions. The other letter appointing Ahmed
Bey Lufti to succeed him was not given him, in view of the fact
that Ali Negib Bey had already taken over command.
Fakhri at this interview was proud and reserved and
answered the questions put to him in monosyllables. But, after
he had talked to the envoys alone, he appeared much relieved,
and became friendly and communicative. He was, however,
suffering much from a cough caused by influenza’and from
insomnia consequent on arthritis. He reached Suez with his
doctor and orderlies on January 28 and has been installed in
apartments in the Kasr el Nil Barracks, Cairo.
Remainder of the Garrison.
The evacuation of the rest of the garrison was carried out
successfully, and for the most part in accordance with a scheme
agreed upon previously in a meeting between Ali, Captain
Carl and and the Turkish delegation under Ali Neolb Bey at
Bir Derwish on January 5 (p. 18). ° J
The site foi the concentration camp had been fixed in
November as Geria (called also Mubarak or Yenbo al Nakhl) ten
hours journey up the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
from Yenbo al Bahr, and the route
decided upon was via El Jafr, the Bowat Pass, and Ras al Beer
with halts at each.
The Emirs had agreed that all troops should be transported
by camel, senioi officers having two, junior officers one, and the
lank and file sharing one between two men. The price charged
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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.
- 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:34v, 36v:47v, 49v:53v, 56r:95v, 98r:132r, 133v:139v, 141r:149r, 150v:174v, 175v:184v, 186r:194v, 195v:196r, 197v, 199v:216v, 219r:233v, 234v:237v, 241r:245v, 248v:252v, 255v:258v, 260r:264v, 266r:275v, 279r:286v, 287v:313r, 316r:349v, 351r:352r, 354r, 355r:358r, 361r, 363r:365r, 366v:367v, 368v:369v, 370v:397v, 400r:412v, back-i
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