Telegram from the Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "most secret" stating that the enemy have started an offensive in Cyrenaica [Libya] but commenting on other matters of consequence: states that he will telegraph about equipment deficiencies and the manpower position; comments on the decision by General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to move General Headquarters officers and other ranks into a tented camp near the pyramids; comments on problems of corn supply in Egypt and Syria; comments on the need for heavy shipments of coal; states that there have been discussions on the best means of increasing industrial production and hopes to have a scheme shaped up very shortly; comments on the refugee problem; comments on the movements of Sir Walter Monckton [Director-General of British Propaganda and Information Services at Cairo] and hopes he may be induced to return to Egypt; states that he has visited the western desert front and has spent a day at Alexandria [Egypt] with the navy.