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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [339r] (686/834)
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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(8), (9) and (10). Describe Emir Ali’s arrangements for
providing camel caravans for the Turkish troops from Medina
to the intermediate camp at Yenbo el Nakhl.
(11) Provides for stopping places and security for the
caravans.
(12) Provides for the movement of the prisoners from
Yenbo el Nakhl to Yenbo.
(13) Provides for control of embarkation at Yenbo.
(14) Provides for the collection of camels, for moving the
prisoners, at Erwa, near Medina, and for the provision of all
necessaries for transport purposes.
(15) The Arab officials appointed to accept the surrender
shall enter Medina after the departure of General Fakhri Eddin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
(16) Provides for the occupation of all necessary defence
posts by the Arab army after departure of the first batch of
Turkish troops, also for the maintenance of public security
by the Arab army, and gives a guarantee by Emir Ali that the
Bedouin shall not enter the city until completion of the evacua
tion.
(17) Money and bank notes in the treasuries of Turkish
units and the relative official documents and accounts (which
shall be registered in a schedule) are to be handed over in a
regular manner to the Arab Committee selected for the purpose.
(18) All Turkish units shall be allowed to take away ledgers
and accounts in their possession, seeing that they may be called
upon by their Government to produce them.
(19) A committee shall be formed of notables and sheikhs
of the local tribes to prevent damage and outrage during the
withdrawal of the Turkish forces from the railway line.
(20) The servants of the Sanctuary and of the Prophet’s
Chamber shall be kept at their posts for one month and a half
to allow for their replacement, and their salaries, as heretofore,
shall be paid to them by the Arab Government.
(21) Such civil Mamurs and their assistants as desire to
do so will be allowed to remain in Medina.
(22) All outstanding monetary transactions between persons
in Medina and the Municipality, the Sharia Court, and the
Prophet’s Treasury shall be completed, and all sums afterwards
remaining shall be handed over, together with the books and
records concerning them, to the Arab Committee, in return for
receipts.
(23) The Post Office shall return to the senders all sums
recently sent by Turkish officers and men to their families
through Yuzbashi Zia Bey, by money orders, as the latter have
not been forwarded to their destinations to be cashed.
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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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