IN THE CLEAR
OFFICE OF THE SUPREME COMMANDER
FOR THE ALLIED POWERS
SIGNAL CORPS MESSAGE

28 September 1945

GC-O TNS/1b
(SCAPIN -70)

FROM	SCAP
TO	THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
INF	CINCPAC PLARL COM FIFTH FLEET COM SEVENTH FLEET CG SIXTH ARMY CG EIGHTH ARMY USAFIK CINCAF AC MANILA

REFERENCE YOUR MEMORANDUM SCA NUMBER SEVEN CMA DATED TWO TWO SEPTEMBER CMA SUBMITTED BY REAR ADMIRAL NAKAMURA CMA LIAISON COMMITTEE CMA IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY AND NAVY CMA THE FOLLOWING PORTS WILL BE PREPARED FOR USE IN REPATRIATION OF JAPANESE DISARMED ARMY CMA NAVY AND CIVILIAN PERSONNEL COLON OTARU CMA NIIGATA CMA TOKYO CMA KOBE CMA OSAKA CMA MAIZURU CMA HIROSHIMA CMA MOJI CMA SHIMONOSEKI AND HAKATA PD (ZAX 6225) INITIALLY FACILITIES WILL ACCOMMODATE THE NUMBER OF PERSONNEL BASED ON PLAN AS SUBMITTED BY THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE MINISTRY OF THE NAVY CMA DATED ONE EIGHT SEPTEMBER CMA USING NAVAL VESSELS AVAILABLE FOR REPATRIATION PD THE SAME PROCEDURE WILL BE FOLLOWED IN THE CASE OF ALTERNATE PORTS PAREN HAKODATE CMA YOKOHAMA CMA TSURUGA AND KURE PAREN AS SECOND PRIORITY PD BASED ON THIS PLAN SUBMIT TO THIS HEADQUARTERS EARLIEST PRACTICABLE DATE NUMBER OF REPATRIATES EACH OF ABOVE PORTS WILL BE SET UP TO RECEIVE AND PROCESS IN ONE REPEAT ONE DAY PD MAKE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS TO RECEIVE CMA PROCESS AND CONSUMMATE REPATRIATION OF JAPANESE NATIONALS PD YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED FOUR DAYS IN ADVANCE WHEN PRACTICABLE CONCERNING THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL CMA DESTINATION AND NUMBER OF JAPANESE TO BE PROCESSED

APPROVED:
/s/W. E. Chambers
/t/W. E. CHAMBERS
Brigadier General, G. S. C.
Acting Asst. Chief of Staff, G-3

OFFICIAL:
B. M. FITCH,
Brigadier General, US Army,
Adjutant General