Cipher message

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Cipher message no. G/10950 from Field Marshal Smuts to Auchinleck, agreeing that, if the enemy intends to make a stand between Agedabia and El Agheila, it would be better for the 8th Army to delay action in order to build up a strong force; and expressing his suspicion that the Allied tanks are not as good as the German tanks. Typescript.