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Yalu River: United States
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In early May, the Japanese War Office authorized a number of foreign correspondents to return to the Yalu River area where the 1st Army was pushing into Manchuria. The press corps, which included reporters and writers from the United States, France, England, Germany and Italy, gathered near Antung to report on the war. Jack London, a writer for the Hearst newspaper chain in the United States, sent the following story describing how the Japanese outwitted the Russians by building their trestle bridge across the Yalu under fire:
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By the end of October 1950 six Chinese armies had already crossed the Yalu River and, with an approximate strength of 180,000, were concentrated in front of the advancing United Nations forces. Conducted at night with great secrecy, these large scale Chinese movements had gone undetected by UN forward troops and air reconnaissance units. Unsupported reports by prisoners of massive build-up were not believed. On October 27, at a time when thousands of organized Chinese troops were pouring across the Yalu, General Headquarters, United Nations and Far East Command showed them still poised for action in Manchuria.
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Cao Renjiang, director of Dandong Environmental Protection Bureau, told reporters that there were nearly 300,000 mallards in the mouths of the Yalu and Dayang rivers, including some red-nosed shelducks, a second-class State protected animals. In addition, there are ... black-mouth gulls, the world's most valuable birds on the brink of extinction.
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