Some trouble here owing to Press report indicating that you stated
in Parliament 'British armoured forces 12 miles from East Buq Buq'
[1]; as suggested this was disclosure of information sent in most
confidential cable. Matter to great extent now academic as the
Prime Minister [2] has announced in the House of Commons that road
between Buq Buq and Sidi Barrani cut, although exact point not
mentioned.

As London Service Departments always most diffident about
disclosing operational information to Dominions Office for
transmission to Dominions, if you did not make statement or if
made from information not drawn from cable would help me to be
advised.

BRUCE