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KEWKIANG-HANKOW
Council-Rev. S. H. Littell (chair- man), Rev. H. F. Row (vice-chair- man), T. L. Duff (treasurer), H. Price (hon. secy.), Rev. Sherman, R. A. Kemp, E. S. Little, Dr. Maklin, Rev. Gale, A. H. Stone, J. Berkin, Rev. E. C. Cooper
MOLCHANOFF & Co.
P. P. Martzinnevich, signs per pro.
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
Dr. H. G. Barrie, health officer C. Etherington, supt. of police J. H. C. Young, secretary
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA
N. Shinohara
T. Omori
T. Karumi
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
ST.
Trustee-H.B.M. Consul G. A. Combe
VINCENT'S NURSING
HOME FOR
H. F. Miller, chairman
B. Fujinaga
FOREIGNERS
Sisters of Charity
Barrie, Mrs.
Burke Close, Mrs. R. J. Combe, Mrs. G. A. Cunningham, Mrs. Daniels, Mrs.
LADIES' DIRECTORY
Fraser, Mrs:
Loureiro, Mrs. J. W.
Martzinkevich, Mrs. P. P. McGuffog, Mrs.
Murray, Mrs.
Napier, Mrs. Tull, Mrs. Wilding, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs.
HANKOW
口漢 Han-kau
Hankow is situated on the river Han at the point where it enters the Yangtsze, and is in lat. 30 deg. 32 min. 51 sec. N., and long. 114 deg. 19 min. 55 sec. E. It was formerly regarded as only a suburb of Hanyang, which it immediately adjoins and which is a district city of the province of Hupeh, but Hankow has outstripped the older city in wealth and importance. Indeed, in his report for 1919, the Commissioner of Customs said: "There can be little doubt that Hankow, as time goes on, will become the greatest commercial centre in China." These two towns lie immediately facing the city of Wuchang-fu, the capital of the province, which is built upon the south bank of the Yangtsze. Hankow is distant from Shanghai about 600 miles. The river steamers go alongside hulks noored close to the shore; ocean steamers anchor in mid-stream. The current is very strong in the river.
Attention was first drawn to Hankow as a place of trade by Huc, the French missionary. Captain Blakiston, in his work "The Yangtsze," gives the following correct description of the place and its surroundings:-" Hankow is situated just where an irregular range of semi-detached low hills crosses a particularly level country on both sides of the main river in an east and west direction. Stationed on Pagoda Hill, Hanyang, a spectator looks down on almost as much water as land even when the rivers are low. At his feet sweeps the magnificent Yangtsze, nearly a mile in width; from the west and skirting the northern edge of the range of hills already mentioned comes the river Han, narrow and canal-like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country; and to the north-west and north is an extensive treeless flat, so little elevated above the river that the scattered hamlets which dot its surface are, without A stream exception, raised on mounds, probably artificial works of a now distant age.
or two traverse its farther part and flow into the main river. Carrying his eye to the