Antung

antung English Alternative forms en An-tung Wade-Giles Etymology From the Postal Map romanization of en cmn - 安東. Pronunciation en /ɑnˈtʊŋ/ änʹdo͝ongʹen 1952 Antung Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 80 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/80/ 3en 1979 An·tung The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 35 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/35/ 2 Proper noun en historical en Dandong. en 1895 May John Ross Manchuria w:The Scottish Geographical Magazine https://archive.org/details/scottishgeograph11scotuoft/page/n243/ XI V Edinburgh w:Royal Scottish Geographical Society 0036-9225 871707415 220–221 https://archive.org/details/scottishgeograph11scotuoft/page/220/ The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli. en https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.527971/mode/2up 1904 Frederick Palmer (journalist) Frederick Palmer With Kuroki In Manchuria London w:Methuen & Co. 2nd 251935877 82 https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.527971/page/80/ At the water front of Antung itself the river is so deep that a disembarkation of infantry would actually have to be made in bodies on shore instead of in the shallows with deployment at a distance. In short, the Russians seemed to have been mesmerized by Antung. en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.224467/mode/2up 1915 Japan, the New World-power Robert P. Porter Oxford University Press 466 The reconstruction of the Tokyo-Shimonoseki section is of importance and ought to be done, not only because it forms a great artery of Japan, but also because it is the line which, when the Mukden-Antung standard-gauge railway is completed next November, will form part of the world’s railway highway, conveying passengers via Chosen and South Manchuria, with only 10 hours’ sea transportation, northward (Shimonoseki to Fusan) to Harbin, where the Siberian Railway is reached and the railway journey may be continued to Europe. Along this route the mails are now carried over the 2½ feet gauge mountain railway between Antung and Mukden, and thence to Harbin. en https://archive.org/details/manchurialandofo00newyuoft/mode/2up 1922 Manchuria: Land of Opportunities South Manchuria Railway Thomas F. Logan New York 46 Many sawmills are now in operation at Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu, and at Kirin on the Sungari River. en 1956 w:Harry S. Truman 24 Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope https://archive.org/details/memoirsbyharryst012833mbp/ II w:Doubleday & Company 1036705143 374 https://archive.org/details/memoirsbyharryst012833mbp/page/374/ MacArthur had ordered a bombing mission to take out the bridge across the Yalu River from Sinuiju (Korea) to Antung (Manchuria). Ninety B-29's were scheduled to take off at one o'clock Washington time to take part in this mission. Lovett had told Acheson that from an operational standpoint he doubted whether the results to be achieved would be important enough to outweigh the danger of bombing Antung or other points on the Manchurian side of the river. en https://archive.org/details/twoworldsofjimyo00yosh/mode/2up 1972 The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida Jim Yoshida; Bill Hosokawa William & Company, Inc. New York 78 The next stop after Seoul was Pyongyang, which the Japanese called Heijo, and suddenly we were into the increasingly more rugged mountains of northern Korea. Finally, at Antung, we crossed the ice-choked Yalu River on a long steel bridge into the vast, flat, brown valleys of Manchuria. en 2022-12-05 Robert Neff How the great Jemulpo Fire of 1907 started https://web.archive.org/web/20221205102429/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2022/12/721_341089.html 05 December 2022 w:The Korea Times https://archive.is/siT5h She decided to leave Korea and go to China, to Antung (modern Dandong), and stay at another uncle's house.According to Tsuneno, she was at her friend's home for about forty minutes chatting and trying to borrow part of the fare to Antung when she suddenly heard fire alarms nearby. en References Further reading pn Anagrams en agnntu tangun