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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

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Of this total, those living at Dairen number 63,745; Fushun, 12,659; Mukden, 12,268; Port Arthur, 9379; Antung, 7057, and Anshan, 6678, while those resident in the jurisdiction of Kwantung Province number 74,893.

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Last week eight Sabres from a South Korean base were jumped by 15 or 16 MIGs over open water some 40 or 50 miles southwest of Antung.

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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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His armies had given him the city of Antung.

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At Antung, seven miles across the Yalu in the sanctuary of Manchuria, 'the Communists have a big air base which U.S. pilots can see as a great, pale scar on the brown landscape.

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