ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٠] (٩٣٠/٦٠٤)

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It may etgain be repeated that desert control
consists of;
(a) Keeping touch with every area,
(b) Striking successive blows in each area, one
after the other,,
We have hitherto dealt with the means of affeothg
(b) f namely with the arrangements for the mobile force
of armed care which is to strike the blows, and we
found that, in order to ensure its mobility, it would
be necessary to establish dosert posts as petrol dumps
and reserves of spare parts.
These desert posts may, at the same time, be
employed to carry out role (a), that is, to keep touch
permanently with every area. For this purpose, the
following essentials ar?) required;-
(a) The personnel must ba Baduin police, familiar
with the area and the tribes. The Beduins live
in a world by themselves, speak a different
dialect, and know one another. Mo non~B©duin
Arab can obtain information efficiently from
Beduinso
(b) Each post must possess a small number of
constables on camels, who can b© sent out on
patrol to neighbouring camps to collect
information* The same men can be used for
local petty police work, minor arrests, taking
letters to Sheikhs and so on*
(e) Each post must possess a wireless set to enable
it to forward the information obtained*
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