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Ever White. Southwest from Paektu along the Manchurian border flows the Yalu River, blue-green with melted snow and ice from its mountain source, and known to Koreans as the Am Nok (Green Duck). Springing northeast from Paektu, the cold Tumen River separates Korea from eastern Manchuria and Siberia. On the Yalu and along the swift-flowing tributaries of the Tumen stand the Japanese-built hydroelectric plants which, until the power lines were cut by the Communists at the 38th parallel, provided 90% of the electricity used in all Korea...
...Japan's declaration of war. But the first incident that got him international headlines was not pretty. He halted a Chinese troopship, ordered the soldiers to take to the boats, sank the ship when they refused, made no attempt to rescue them. At the Battle of the Yalu, where the Chinese fleet was shattered, Captain Togo won his share of glory, brought his ship through without a single casualty. Before the war was over he had been promoted to Rear Admiral. When Japan was ready for the Russo-Japanese War, so were Togo and his fleet. Once again...
...York Sun, he scooped the capture of Guam from a Spanish commander who thought the U. S. ships were firing a salute. He covered the looting of Peking in the Boxer Rebellion, wrote the first eye-witness report of Japan's victory over Russia at the Yalu, was caught in Berlin when the U. S. entered the War. An able political observer, Correspondent Davis was publicity director of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose campaign...
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...
...campaign from this on develops itself into an attack upon the stronghold of China in two lines - one through Manchuria to Monkden, and the other from some point on the Gulf of Pechili. Field Marshall Yamagala crossed the Yalu and defeated the Chinese at Kin Lieu Ching. His army then advanced a short distance into Manchuria, where the winter stopped their approach to Monkden...