ANTUNG, a treaty port in eastern south Manchuria on the Korean frontier 59' N. 3o' E.). It lies at the mouth of the Yalu river and is the natural outlet of its basin, which drains the tangled forested mountain country of east Manchuria and west Korea. Its importance as a timber market, especially sig nificant by reason of the generally treeless character of north China, is a result of this position. Antung has had long-standing trading relations with Chefoo in the silk trade in which An tung has long been tributary to Chefoo but which she now threat ens to supplant. The modern importance of Antung, however, is bound up essentially with its position as a frontier station through which the railway from Korea, whose communications are closely linked with those of Japan, passes into south Manchuria, across a long bridge over the Yalu. This railway connection is particu larly significant in view of the Japanese direction of the develop ment of south Manchuria. Japan in fact monopolizes the foreign import trade of Antung and takes one-half of its exports of raw silk and bean products. At the beginning of the present century timber was the most important export of Antung, but it has since given place to silk and to bean products. The total volume of trade has risen steadily from Hk.Tls.4,763,238 in 1907, when the port was first opened to foreign trade, to Hk.T1s.93,156,81 i in 1926 and among Chinese ports it has risen from 24th to 7th place.