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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎355v] (719/834)

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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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The first points for elucidation with regard to the Khurma
dispute are therefore
(1) What were the terms of the 1910 treaty between
Ibn Saud and the King ?
(2) What was the official Hejaz-Nejd boundary under the
Turks ?
(3) AVill it tend towards peace in the future if tribes whose
religious, and therefore political, allegiance is given to one
leader (Ibn Sand) are placed under his territorial and religious
rival, the King ?
(4) Has the King sufficient authority over the Ateibah to
enable him, with their help, to keep the above tribes in check if
the latter were placed under his overlordship against their wishes?
H. Gr.
Latest Intelligence.
Owing to King Husein’s refusal to allow the Taif-Khurma
route to Nejd to be used by Mr. Philby, the latter has been
withdrawn by His Majesty’s Government, as also have the
aeroplanes which were stationed at Jeddah for the defence of
Mecca.
It will be interesting to see how long the rivals now abstain
from acts of aggression : each of them has faithfully promised
not to break the peace. The King has received reinforcements
of Arab troops, comprising about 60 officers, 450 men, 8 field
guns, and 20 machine guns, which were sent for defence purposes
from Syria.
Ibn Rashid recently wrote to Emir Abdullah placing himself
under the latter’s orders, offering to make an attack on Ibn
Sand’s town of Boreidah, and asking for supplies and money.
The King and Abdullah deny having instigated Ibn Rashid
to take such action, and say that the attack will probably not take
place : they also state that they have firmly refused the request
for money and supplies. Colonel Wilson made it clear to Emir
Abdullah that any offensive co-operation between Ibn Rashid
and the King against Ibn Saud would not be countenanced by
His Majesty’s Government.
From a perusal of Ibn Rashid’s letter to Emir Abdullah it
appears that the oft-quoted rajp'prochement between the King
and Ibn Rashid never materialized, and Colonel Wilson states
that only preliminary negotiations w^ere carried out.
Ibn Saud has written to Colonel Wilson saying that he got his
chief supporters to leave Tarabah by advising them to return
to Nejd to prepare for the pilgrimage, and, Ibn Saud himself
having left for Riadh, the two villages in dispute are now left
in the hands of the residents who, in Ibn Sand’s words, “ are
quite able to take care of themselves,”

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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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