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KEWKIANG-HANKOW

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ST. PAUL'S CHURCH

Trustee-H. F. King (H.B.M. Consul) Committee-Rev. Č. F. Lindstrom,

Dr. A. C. Lambert, H. F. King

LIKIN COLLECTORATE

P. von Tanner, commissioner

豐順 Shoon-fung

LITVINOFF & Co., S. W., Tablet and Brick

Tea Factory

昌阜 Fow-cheong

MOLCHANOFF, PECHATNOFF & Co., Merchts.

Ta Ying Kung-wu-kok

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

C. B. Tweedie (chairman), G. S. Haw- kins (treasurer), Dr. A. C. Lambert (secretary), P. von Tanner (coun- cillor)

Head Officer-A, C. Lambert, M.D. Inspector of Police--H. Pritchard

Chung-Kuo-Yu-cheng-chü

NANCHANG POSTAL DISTRICT-Head Office D. Mullen, deputy postal commissioner

in charge

F. Merrien, district accountant

POLICE STATION

H. Pritchard, inspector of police

ST.

VINCENT'S

FOREIGNERS

NURSING

HOME

FOR

Sister Vincent (Superior)

Sister Marguerite

Infirmiare Paul

A. C. Lambert, M.D. (medical officer)

STANDARD OIL CO. OF N.Y.-Tel. Ad: Socony

Herbert R. Everall, manager

J. Renton Haney, assistant C. B. Brown,

B. S. Chapman,

A. J. Kuntz,

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W. J. Drummond, accountant

O. M. Armstrong, installation manager

TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE

W. S. Ho, director general of Kiangsi

or Anhwui and manager of Kiu kiang Office

T. L. Chu, clerk-in-charge

HANKOW

Han-kau

Hankow is situated on the river Han at the point where it enters the Yangtze, 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. 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 Yangtze. Hankow is distant from Shanghai about 600 miles.

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 Yangtze, 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 exception raised on mounds, probably artificial works of a now distant age. A stream or two traverse its farther part and flow into the main river. Carrying his eye to the right bank of the Yangtze one sees enormous lakes and lagoons both to the north-west and south-east sides of the hills beyond the provincial city.'

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