Your telegram 30th September noted. [1] Desire to submit following
observations-
Paragraph 1. We assure you no want of confidence is felt in the
military judgment of Auchinleck. [2] The vital considerations
outlined in my cablegram No. 26 of 14th Septernber [3] should, we
feel, give no cause for Auchinleck to imply such want of
confidence.

Paragraph 2. We appreciate fully the factors put forward, but
suggest the considerations in paragraph 3 of my cablegram of 14th
September are of such importance to outweigh them.

Paragraph 3. I hasten to assure you that neither by suggestion nor
implication have I or my Government intended to convey the
impression that an undue burden has been thrown on Australian
troops who have been proud to fight side by side with the troops
of the Motherland and the Empire and share equally with them all
the disappointments, perils, triumphs, and sacrifices of the
campaign in the Middle East.

I and my Government have given most full and careful further
consideration to the request contained in my cablegram No. 26 of
14th September and while assuring you that, as in the past, we are
prepared to make every sacrifice [in] common with the rest of the
Empire we cannot see our way for the reasons fully set out in my
cablegram to depart from this conclusions