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MISSIONARIES

會地內

KEWKING-HANKOW

CHINA INLAND MISSION: Tel. Ad. In-

land

A. Orr Ewing

J. S. and Mrs. Rough

In Kiangse Province: Postal Address,

Kewkiang

J. T. and Mrs. Reid

A. E. and Mrs. Thor

J. Meikle

G. J. Marshall

J. Lawson

R. B. Whittlesey Mrs M. H. Cameron

Misses L. Cowley, L. Carlyle, N. Marchbank, K. S. Fleming, H. B. Fleming, I. Elofson, E. McCulloch, R. McKenzie, A. Withey, L. McFarlane, F. L. Collins, E. S. Clough, C. J. Smith, S. Turner, J. A. Smith, A. Gibson, I. Cor- mack, H. Bance, M. Hancock, E.

Forsberg, B. Robson, W. Sunds- tröm

會美以美

METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION (AMERN.)

Rev. E. S. and Mrs. Little (absent)

Rev. J. J. and Mrs. Banbury

Rev. R. O. and Mrs. Irish

Rev. J. and Mrs. Jackson

Rev. D. W. and Mrs. Nichols

Miss Gertrude Howe

Miss Kate L. Ogborn

Miss Alice M. Stanton

Miss Clara E. Merrill

堂主天

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Kiangsi Méridional (South Kiangsi) Bishop-Coqset, apostolic vicar

Pères-Boscat, Perès, Festa, Candu- glia, Shottey, Gattringer, Legris- Thieffry

Kiangsi Oriental (East Kiangsi) Bishop-Vic, apostolic vicar Pères-Dauverchain, Ciceri, Tamet, Bresson, Donjoux, Rameux, Cla- bault, Briant, Dellieux

Kiangsi Septentrional (North Kiangsi)

Bishop-Bray, apostolic vicar Pères-Portes, Lefebvre, Fatiquet,

Potel, Francès, Braets Sisters of Charity, Kiukiang

Sœurs Foubert, superior, Marzi, Hac-

ard, orphanage

Marchais, superior, Duprat, Ryan,

Duparc, hospital

UNCONNECTED

J. L. and Mrs. Duff

E. J. and Mrs. Blandford, Wuch'en R. Ernest Jones,

do.

Fow-cheong

MOLCHANOFF, PECHATNOFF & Co., Merchs.

M. A. Toomaseff, agent

I Ta Ying Kung-wu-chü

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

Chairman-Arthur Smith

Hon. Secretary-Jas. J. Banbury

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE Whong Jen Yu, manager

Shoon-foong

TOKMAKOFF, MOLOTKOFF & Co., Merchants

M. J. Ostanin

順義 E-shun

UNDERWOOD, GEO. R., M.B. EDINR., Medical

Practitioner

HANKOW

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 district city of the province of Hupeh, but Hankow has outstripped the older city in wealth and importance. 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.

Attention was first drawn to Hankow as a place of trade by Huc, a 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