To understand this message, one must remember the setbacks and hardships of a long winter:the total failure of the British thrust on Tunis at the end of November 1942, the failure of the French offensive in December on the pivot of the Dorsale and that of the English, on Christmas Day, in front of "Longstop Hill" - the hill of the long stop, a stop of five months.
You must also remember that in January the "Tiger" tanks, rushing on Ousseltia, jostled and undermined the division of Morocco, and that in February Rommel's panzers broke through the American front in front of Sbeïtla and, pushing on Kasserine and Thala, almost brought down all the allied front in Tunisia!
At this critical moment when the scales are hesitating to tip one side or the other, the situation has only been saved for us by the intervention of a British armored brigade in front of Thala and by a fear, probably premature, of Rommel for the Mareth line.
And lo and behold, ten weeks later, the campaign ended with the complete surrender of two strong enemy armies, with the total number of German and Italian prisoners reaching 250,000 men!