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Letter from Auchinleck to Lt.-Gen. Arthur Smith, reporting the bold stroke of the enemy in dividing his forces in diametrically opposite directions, his confidence that [Lt.-Gen. Neil] Ritchie has the situation in hand, the news that the 1st Armoured Division has been reorganized and is ready for action, and the need for the reformed 4th Armoured Brigade to be brought up to the desert as soon as possible. Typescript.