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Antung

American  
[ahn-doong, an-toong] / ˈɑnˈdʊŋ, ænˈtʊŋ /

noun

Wade-Giles.
  1. former name of Dandong.

  2. a former province of China, in Manchuria.


Antung British  
/ ˈænˈtʊŋ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Andong

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Even so, every once in a while, a special flight of red-nosed MIGs scrambles up from Antung across the Yalu.

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The Russians gave due warning that, elsewhere in southern Manchuria, presumably at Hulutao and Antung, Chinese Reds might not be so agreeable.

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Strategically, the fall of Antung was a greater blow to the Communists than Kalgan, where they had lost land communications between Yenan and their Manchurian headquarters, Harbin.

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In what obviously was a coordinated offensive, other Nationalist armies closed in on Chefoo, across the Yellow Sea from Antung on the Shantung Peninsula.

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The journey from Mukden to Antung required two days, the train stopping for the night at Tsaohokow.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

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