SCAPIN-816: APPREHENSION OF LT. GEN. HARADA, KUMAKICHI

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
14 March 1946

AG 383.6 (14 Mar 46) CIS
(SCAPIN - 816)

MEMORANDUM FOR

IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH

Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.

SUBJECT

Apprehension of Lt. Gen. Harada, Kumakichi.

1. The Imperial Japanese Government will apprehend and deliver to the authorities at Sugamo Prison Lt. Gen. HARADA, Kumakichi, former Commander in Chief of the 16th Army in Java who was transferred to the Command of the 55th Army in the Shikoku Military District on 15 June 1945.
2. Delivery to Sugamo Prison will be made on or before 1600, 18 March 1946
.
3. In the event delivery on the appointed day is impossible, the government will submit to this headquarters a report concerning the individual's present whereabouts and the reason for non-arrest.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

B. M. FITCH
Brigadier General, AGD
Adjutant General