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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [315v] (639/834)
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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Secret Service Funds.
Amongst Fakhri’s papers were discovered some Secret Ser
vice accounts covering apparently the latter months of 1917.
As might be expected, they show for the most part payment to
agents, spies, sheikhs on submission, deserters and the like ; and
also large allowances to the Rector of the Haram Sherif and
other officials of the Prophet’s Mosque. The most interesting of
the payments are made to :—
1. Messengers from the Yemen. These were constanly
coming in.
2. ^For gold watches presented in December 1917 to Ibn
Rashid’s brother and uncle. There is also a payment to a photo
grapher for a portrait of Ibn Rashid himself.
3. To the son and followers of Sheikh Hussein
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
ibn
Muberik of Rabegh. They seem to have come into Medina more
than once and to have been entertained lavishly and paid hand
somely.
4. To sheikhs and tribesmen of two sections of the Harb
viz. the Hawazim and Beni Amr.
5. ^ For “ nitrate of potash to melt the silver... of the Holy
Tomb ” 200 gold piastres. This particular item refers, it has been
stated, to some candlesticks.
6. Compensation for land-mine laying, presumably paid to
men injured in the process or to their families.
7. To Sheikh Mohammed Ghaneim, Emir of the Juheinah
twice. ’
8. To one Hamza Tewfik of Hail, accountant of Abdul
Hamid el Masri, who was robbed of his effects at Teima.
.A list of the names of recipients of monies out of these Secret
Service funds is being prepared, and a copy of it will be put at
Jimg Husem s disposal for future reference.
Turkish Attitude to the Loss of Arabia.
The equanimity with which many Turks accept the loss of
Arabia is illustrated afresh in Emin Bey’s manifesto. He points
out that even in peace time, whole divisions were necessary to
keep order; and that even they were compelled to enlist the
sympathies of local sheikhs in order to be able to move about
with immunity m Hejaz, Asir and Mesopotamia. Even had the
Central I owers won, he adds, Turkey would not have been able
to maintain her hold on Arabia had Germany, for instance, desired
its independence. ’
timAATlTY’ R 6 latte j' WOU , ld l 1 *™ been on, y a question of
tune. All JNegib Bey said much the same on another occasion
adding that Medina and Mecca were the only places that Turkey
cared about, owing to their importance from a religious point of
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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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