GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
14 November 1945

AG 370.05 (14 Nov 45) GC
(SCAPIN - 278)

MEMORANDUM FOR	THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Request for Permission to Repatriate Chinese Laborers on Board "hokusen-maru".

1. Favorable action has already been taken in regard to: approving request to load 1,055 Chinese on Hokusen Maru; and to furnish guards aboard vessel.
2. Further information and instructions regarding voyage of subject vessel was furnished Imperial Japanese Government in Memo, this headquarters file AG 560 (14 Nov 45) GC, subject: "Substitution of Ship Sailing for Shanghai", dated 14 November 1945.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

H.W.ALLEN,
Colonel, A.G.D.,
Asst Adjutant General.