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.
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.
1913 February, “Asbestos Mines in China”, in Mines and Minerals[3], volume XXXIII, number 7, Scranton, PA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 398, column 3:
Consul Baker, of Antung, China, states that valuable deposits of asbestos have been found in the vicinity of Kuantien, a small town lying about 45 miles northeast of Antung.
1915, Robert P. Porter, Japan, the New World-power[4], Oxford University Press, page 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.
1922, South Manchuria Railway, Manchuria: Land of Opportunities[5], New York: Thomas F. Logan, page 46:
Many sawmills are now in operation at Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu, and at Kirin on the Sungari River.
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.
In order to concentrate its troops for flexible operations and lure the enemy forces in deep so as to annihilate them one by one on the move, our army — in the first year of the Third Revolutionary Civil War — abandoned on its own initiative 105 major cities such as Yenan, Changchiakou, Chengteh, Shenyang and Antung [now Tantung].[…] At the beginning of the Third Revolutionary Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek laid down a principle of “concentrated and flexible employment of troops”. But, on the other hand, he wanted to occupy a great many places including the Liberated Areas on the borders of Honan and Hupeh, north Kiangsu, Chengteh, Shenyang and Antung [now Tantung].
1967 March 16 [1965 September 1], “Technical Progress in Chinese Offshore Fishing”, in Photographs and Selected Text on the Shang-hai Film Factory[8], Central Intelligence Agency, published 2004, page [9]:
In the Liaoning-Tantung (formerly Antung) area which forms the northernmost offshore fishing area of China, the catch taken in from the middle of March to the middle of April came to three times that caught for the same period in 1964.
1972, Jim Yoshida, Bill Hosokawa, The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida[10], New York: William & Company, Inc., page 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.
1996, Yasuo Miyakawa, “Mutation of International Politico-Economic Structure and the Development of the Pacific Maritime Corridor in the East Asia Orbit”, in Global Geopolitical Change and the Asia-Pacific: A Regional Perspective[11], Avebury Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:
During this war economy, Nissan Motors promoted the establishment of automobile factories, first at Mukden (now Shenyang) and then Antung (now Tantung) near Korea.
[2010, “My Gratitude”, in Eun-seop Kim, editor, Kyung-Chik Han Collection 1: Biographies 1[12], Seoul: Kyung-Chik Han Foundation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 259:
At the time, not only did Sinuiju have many churches, but the entire North Pyeongan Province had the most churches compared to any other province. Uiju and the adjacent Yongcheon-gun had a presbytery. And in Uiju, Sakju, Byeokdong, Changseong and even in Yanbian near the Yalu River, the number of churches was growing significantly. The Korean churches were also developing in Andong and Manchuria on the other side of the Yalu River.]
2022 December 5, Robert Neff, “How the great Jemulpo Fire of 1907 started”, in The Korea Times[13], archived from the original on 05 December 2022[14]:
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.
