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KIUKIANG-HANKOW

HIL Kiu-kiang-ch'ang-kuan 關常江九

Commissioner-F. L. Bessell

NATIVE CUSTOMS

Assist. (Chinese)-Tsien Chung How

Lights

Assist. River Inspr.-G. F. C. Corfield Officers-S. G, Loraine-Grews and

J. Brown

Yard-keeper-P. H. Oates

IZB Sien-ang-ka-nieu

FAIRY GLEN, Private Hotel-Kuling; Tel.

Ad: Fairglen

和怡 E-wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants

-Tel. Ad: Jardine

W. Divens

Agencies

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn.

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Canton Insurance Office, Ld. Alliance Assurance Co., Ld. Indo-China Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co. Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ld.

"Shire" Line of Steamers

Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co., Ld.

Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.

759

AKB Chung Kuo Yu-chêng-chü KIANGSI POSTAL DISTRICT-Nanchang

Postal Commissioner-W. O'Neill District Accountant-E. J. Vanderlieb 1st Class Office-Kiukiang Postmaster--T. Nyeno

KIUKIANG CLUB & RECREATION GRound

(Company Limited by Guarantee) Chairman-G. F. C. Corfield Committee-G. F. C. Corfield, J. F.

Feely, D. F. A. Wallace, E. J. Harris

and J. P. Macdermott

Hon. Secy. & Treas.-J. P. Macdermott

Office Assistant-L. F. Chung

社會船汽清日

Jih-ching-hie-zuen-way-sha

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA

S. Satoh

T. Murakami

T. Takasu (hulk master)

李美 Msi.foo

STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK—Tel.

Ad: Socony

L. J. Mead, manager

E. M. Green

E. J. Harrs, installation supt.

K. Y. John, stenographer

HANKOW

口漢 Han-kau

Hankow, as its name implies, is located at the mouth of the Han River-the longest tributary of the Yangtsze-in latitude 30 deg. 32 min. N., and longitude 114 deg. 19 min. E. Its central position, standing as it does like a half-way house between North and South China, has led to its being called the "Chicago of China." It was formerly regarded merely as a suburb of Hanyang, which it immediately adjoins, but it has since far outstripped the older city in commerce, wealth and influence. It is, of course, the principal port on the Yangtsze, which drains about 750,000 square miles of territory and waters a hinterland with a population of close upon 200,000,000 people. Thus situated and environed, it is natural to expect that it will ultimately become the chief emporium in central China. Hankow is 600 miles distant from Shanghai, and, in normal times there are over 40 steamers, with excellent passenger accommodation on the Shanghai-Hankow run; 10 steamers on the Hankow-Ichang run; and 5 steamers on the Hankow-Changsha run.

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