IOR/L/PS/10/600

The volume consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda and printed reports relating to the Arab revolt against Ottoman rule in the Hejaz region of the Arabian Peninsula during the First World War (1914-1918). The papers tell of the British response to the situation, covering the following matters:

• evacuation of Kunfuda by the Imam of ʻAsīr (Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsī) (ff 216-222)
• the position of the military forces of the Sherif of Mecca (Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī ) between Medina and Rabegh and the logistic of supplying him (ff 206-215)
• the submission of the Sheikh of Rabegh to the Sherif of Mecca (200-205)
• reports by Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Edward Wilson on the situation in Hejaz
• the Turkish advance towards Rabegh
• discussion of British policy towards operations in Hejaz and the decision not to send troops to Hejaz
• arrangements concerning political control
• the Grand Sherif's request for troops and the promise of French troops

Included (ff 190-192) in the volume is a copy of 'Report of a visit to the Idrisi Saiyid Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ahmed at Jezzan', dated 17 January 1916, by the First Assistant Resident, Aden (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob).

Principal correspondents include the Political Resident, Aden; the Secretary of State for India; and the High Commissioner for Egypt.

Each part includes a divider, which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.