1. Enemy Behaviour 6 February 1942

Reconnaissance activity in the area southeast Mechili by a reconnaissance battalion of 1st Armoured Division based at Segnali. Further improvement of the defensive front B. Hacheim – B. el Harmat – Acroma and north under cover of the security screen formed in the line B. Hacheim by 150th Brigade and the 6th and 7th South African Reconnaissance Regiments of Force E. Recognised in the defensive line: 1st Armoured Division from B. Hacheim to B. el Harmat, following on 1st South African Division to north of Trigh Enver Bey, following on from there probably Polish Brigade. From about 2km south of Acroma to the coast 4th Indian Division with 11th Indian Brigade south of Acroma and north of it 5ht Indian Brigade. XIII Corps in Tobruk, there also 70th Division and 1st light Free French Division as well as 32nd Army Tank Brigade. Aerial reconnaissance noted today only weak traffic between Tobruk and Bardia. At the end loop of the railway 500 wagons and 300 motor vehicles. 

2. Deserters from 4th Indian Division state that of 5th Indian Division only the 29th Brigade is in North Africa. 10th and 38th Brigades of this division are supposed to be on Cyprus. Nevertheless, 38th Brigade has appeared in the radio picture in the area of Tobruk for a few weeks now.

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