Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] marked "most immediate" "personal" and "secret" regarding the battle in the Libyan desert: asks for clarification regarding the withdrawal by Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie [General Officer Commanding Eighth Army]; presumes there is no question of giving up Tobruk [Libya]; expresses pleasure at the decision to bring the New Zealand Division into the Western Desert and asks for details of its deployment.