Cipher message

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Cipher message no. CS/587 from Auchinleck to Winston Churchill, in answer to AUC/623 above, pointing out that the enemy's divisions are seriously under strength, that only one third of Rommel's Italian infantry escaped to a safe position, that only 6 enemy ships reached Tripoli, and that it is still his intention to advance into Tripolitania. Typescript.