IN THE CLEAR
OFFICE OF THE SUPREME COMMANDER
FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

4 September 1945

GC WHR/rs
(SCAPIN - 5)

FROM	THE SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS
TO	JAPANESE IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS
INFO	GC EIGHTH AEMY CG USASTAF CG NINTH CORPS COMPHIBSPAC CINCPAC ADV COM THIRD PHIB COMGEN FEAF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT COM NORPAC CONCAFPAC MANILA COM THIRD FLEET

MINESWEEPING VESSELS OF NORTHERN PACIFIC FORCE WILL START OPERATIONS ABOUT NAUGHT SEVEN NAUGHT NAUGHT HOURS TOKYO TIME ON SEPTEMBER SEVEN TO CLEAR CHANNEL FROM EASTERN END TSUGARU STRAITS TO OMINATO NAVAL ANCHORAGE PD AIRCRAFT WILL CONDUCT SURVEILLANCE FLIGHTS OVER NORTHERN HONSHU AND HOKKAIDO ON SAME DAY PD (ZAX5098)
IT IS DESIRED THAT TO YOU PARAN ABLE PARAN DIRECT THE COMMANDANT OMINATO GUARD DISTRICT TO ESTABLISH RADIO CONTRACT WITH COMMANDER NORTH PACIFIC FORCE USING CHARLIE WILLIAM ENGLISH LANGUAGE BROADCAST ON A FREQUENCY TO BE SPECIFIED AT LATE DATE PARAN BAKE PARAN DIRECT EMISSARIES WITH INTERPRETERS SORTIE IN JAPANESE VESSEL TO ARRIVE AT POSITION FORTY ONE DANGERS FORTY FIVE MINUTES NORTH LATITUDE ONE FOUR ONE DEGREES THIRTY MINUTES EAST LONGITUDE AT NAUGHT EIGHT NAUGHT NAUGHT TOKYO TIME SEPTEMBER SEVENTH THREE THEY WILL BE BROUGHT ON BOARD FLAGSHIP COMMANDER NORTH PACIFIC AND INSTRUCTED AS TO REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRY OF COMMANDER NOTTH PACIFIC FORCE INTO OMINATO NAVEL ANCHORAGE ON SEPTEMBER EIGHT PAREN CHARLIE PAREN TO INSURE SAFE ENTRY INTO TSUGATU STRAITS DASH MUTSU BAY ARRIVAL MINES AND MINEFIELDS SHALL BE REMOVED IN SO FAR AS FACILITIES PERMIT SEMICLN ALL SAFETY LANES SHALL BE KEPT OPEN AND CLEARLY MARKED SEMICLN ALL AIDS TO NAVIGATION SHALL BE REESTABLISHED SEMICLN ALL PILOTING SERVICES AND PORT PERSONNEL SHALL CONTINUE TO OPERATE AT THIRE STATIONS SEMICLN ALL COAST DEFENSES CMA ANTIAIRCRAFT CMA FIXED AND MOBILE ARTILLERY SHALL BE RENDERED INOPERATIVE AND ALL VESSELS AND CRAFT SHALL BE IMMOBILIZED PD PARREN DOG PAREN NOT LATER THAN NAUGHT FIVE NAUGHT NAUGHT HOURS TOKYO TIME EIGHT SEPTEMBER ONE NINE FOUR FIVE DIRECT A JAPANESE SHIP WITH FOUR PILOTS AND FOUR INTERPRETERS TO BE AT A POINT AT FORTY ONE DANGERS FORTY FIVE MINUTES NORTH LATITUDE ONE FOUR ONE DEGREES THIRTY MINUTES EAST LONGITUDE TO MEET AND GUIDE NORTH PACIFIC FORCES INTO OMINATO NAVAL ANCHORAGE PD PAREN ▲▲SY PAREN DIRECT THE COMMANDANT OMINATO GUARD DISTRICT TO COMPLY WITH SUCH INSTRUCTIONS ▲S MAY BE RECEIVED BY RADIOGRAM OR IN PERSON FROM COMMANDER NORTH PACIFIC FORCE

OFFICIAL:
/S/W.E. Chambers
/t/W.E. CHAMBERS
Brig General, G. S.C,
G-3, GHQ Advance