GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
12 September 1947

AG 311.23 (12 Sep 47) CCS
(SCAPIN - 1776)

MEMORANDUM FOR	JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Revised Procedure for RTP and Transferred Account Messages.

1. References:
a. Memorandum for Japanese Government, file AG 311.23 (18 May 46)CCS, (SCAPIN 969), dated 18 May 1946, subject: Sender Composition Message Service for Approved Private Companies.
b. Memorandum for Japanese Government, file AG 311.23 (4 Aug 46)CCS, (SCAPIN 1101), dated 4 August 1946, subject: Telegraph Service for Approved Private Companies.
c. Memorandum for Japanese Government, file AG 311.23 (14 Sep 46)CCS, (SCAPIN 1204), dated 14 September 1946, subject: Telegraph Service for Approved Private Companies.
d. Memorandum for Japanese Government, file AG 311.23 (2 Jan 47)CCS, (SCAPIN 1433), dated 2 January 1947, subject: "Transferred Account" Message Service for American International Underwriters Corporation.
e. Memorandum for Japanese Government, file AG 311.23 (11 Apr 47)CCS, (SCAPIN 1606), dated 11 April 1947, subject: "Transferred Account" Message Service for Pan American World Airways System and Northwest Airlines, Inc.
f. Memorandum for Japanese Government, File AG 311.23 (10 May 47)CCS, (SCAPIN 1664), dated 10 May 1947, subject: "Transferred Account" Arrangements for Messages Filed by Time-Life International, Tokyo.
g. Memorandum for Japanese Government, file AG 311.23 (8 Jul 47)CCS, (SCAPIN 4100-A), dated 8 July 1947, subject: "Transferred Account" Message Service for Reader's Digest, Tokyo.
2. Paragraph 1a of reference 1a above is rescinded and the following substituted therefor:
a. Accept and transmit from any organization or person in Japan on a receiver-to-pay basis, messages to any country or place to which message rates from Japan are established now or in the future.
3. Paragraph 1b of reference 1a above is rescinded and the following substituted therefor:
a. Receives, and deliver to private, business or code addresses, unless otherwise directed by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, messages from all counties addressed to private, business or code addresses in Japan.
4. Paragraph 1c of reference 1a above is rescinded.
5. Paragraph 3 of reference 1a above is rescinded and the following substituted therefor:
a. Incoming messages will be delivered in accordance with the address of such messages. Messages addressed to registered code addresses will be delivered in accordance with instructions received by the Ministry of Communications directly from the registrants of such code addresses or from instructions received from General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
6. The regularly established procedures for handling "Transferred Accounts" will remain unchanged except as follows:
a. Application for Transferred Account privileges may be made by any organization or person in Japan including Japanese nationals.
b. Hereafter application for Transferred Account privileges will be made by the applicant directly to the Ministry of Communications.
c. All classes of messages may be included in Transferred Account arrangements.
d. Before establishing Transferred Account arrangements the Ministry of Communications through normal service message procedure will direct inquiries to connecting telegraph administrations or companies to ascertain whether or not recipients of Transferred Account messages are agreeable to paying the charges for such messages.
e. The Ministry of Communications will secure from the applicant for Transferred Account privileges the complete name and address, including code address if any, of the private company, organization, or person from whom the charges for Transferred Account messages are to be collected and show this information in the "RTP SECTION" of the monthly traffic statements, in accordance with present procedures.
f. Charge for all "RTP" messages handled from Japan on a Transferred Account basis will include the applicable Japanese terminal charges.
7. The Transferred Account arrangements authorized by references 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, and 1g, above, will remain in force. Any future changes desired in these arrangements will be communicated directly to the Ministry of Communications by the applicants.
8. Direct communication between the Civil Communications Section, or other staff sections of General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and the Ministry of Communications, concerning matters within the scope of this memorandum is authorized.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

R.M. LEVY,
Colonel, AGD,
Adjutant General.

(See reverse for Memo Info of General Application)