Letter

Scope and Content

Letter from Lt.-Gen. N.M. [Neil] Ritchie to Auchinleck, reporting that the enemy is probably playing for time until he can get Benghazi open, that the 13th Corps is establishing columns on the line Tmimi-Mechili to attempt to push the enemy out of both places, that he has drastically reduced the number of non-combatant personnel in Tobruk, and that the 1st Armoured Division is undergoing training and reorganization. Typescript, signed.