File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’ [‎459v] (923/1240)

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, r- „ T7o-vnt and he has been given a house at
tom Basrah with and appears to
altoTto him the role o£ leading conspirator.
allot to ^ Armenian massacres, and
The Milh took a hand rn tQ ^
Ismail, though not ^ -justifiable. He said that the
thinks that m tlnS Y ^ comp lete independence, and that it
Armenians were an ^ I d on their heads, they
was well-known ^ S ^he Turks. This version of the
notes.
The Southern Bumitot and the Sherifial Revolt.
Some informatmn^te ^ he e ^^f sh *7 Dhabah.
He^states thaTthe Turks became aware some time ago that the
local Hnweitat were being worked upon by King Husein and
,1 , t hp last when after the receipt by Ahmed Teqeiqah, the
Huweitet chief! of a letter from the King they realised that the
tribesmen would turn on them, the Turkish officers and N C.O s.
all went off inland (just as the Commandant of W ejh did, after
exhorting his men to fight to the last). The small force o
rank and’file, reduced by two years' wastage from one thousand
to fifty men, which was thus left stranded, put up a fight, but
after losing some twenty killed, had to surrender.
The Imam tells us that Ahmed Teqeiqah, a man of about
forty, has authority for only about two days journey inland, and
is not on good terms with the Beni Atiyah beyond. His cousin,
Shadli Alyaii, a much younger man, is a rival for the chiettam-
ship, but acts under Ahmed and is quite friendly with him. I he
Midianite Huweitat can call out about 2,000 men, but possess
less than 2,000 camels. Ahmed er-Uifayah (or Eafai), {see
our No. 42, p. 82), is a villager of Muweilah, an old man of
consideration, but without tribal authority.
Turks and Bedouin Sheikhs.
The Sharq, under date February 8, states that Jemal Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has been handing out decorations among sheikhs, belonging to
the Huweitat and to certain small Anezah units, which lie east
of the Hejaz railway, evidently in the hope that they will
counteract the hostility of the Juheinah, Billi and other tribal
elements west of the line. Of the Huweitat, we find in this
honours list, Hamid Ibn Jazi, who is called by the Sharq, Grand
Sheikh of the tribe, but we do not find Audah Abu Tayi, the
most important Huweitat Chief, nor even Arar Ibn Jazi, the
head of the Jazi section. Both these last, as a matter of hict,