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KIUKIANG-HANKOW

A339

Durr & Co., J. L., Manufacturers “Kuling

Brand" Provisions-

J. L. Duff

寓客岩僊 Sien ang ka nieu

FAIRY GLEN, Private Hotel-Kuling; Cable

Ad: Fairglen

J. L. Duff & Co., managers

和怡 E Wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants

Teleph. 50; Cable Ads: Jardine

(General) and Inchcoy (Shipping)

T. W. Pan, agent

KIANGSI POSTAL DISTRICT-Head Office:

Nanchang

Director-R. M. Caudron

Chief of Local Business Dept.

Wu Tsu Jung

Chief of Inland Business Dept.

Lo Kwong Lau

Chief of General Affairs Dept.

Ching Chun-sheng

Chief of Accounts and Checking

Dept.- Ju Kem Fun

First Class Office, Kiukiang

Postmaster-Yen Tsu Kong

KIUKIANG CLUB & RECREATION GROUND

(Company Limited by Guarantee)--- Committee - B. S. Stephenson (chairman), H. C. S. C. Selby

(hon secretary), P. H. Benedict

(hon. treasurer) and W. H. H. Kimberley

美 Mei Foo

STANDARD- VACUUM OIL Co.-

F. W. Lilley, manager

J. L. Poole, Installation supt.

K. Y. John, stenographer

J

YEE TSOONG TOBACCO DISTRIBUTORS, LTD.

-Cable Ad: Powhatten

HANKOW

口

漢

Lan-kau

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Hankow, as its name implies, is located at the mouth of the Han Rver-the longest tributary of the Yangtsze-in latitude 30 deg. 32 min. N., and longitude 114 deg. 9 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 foreign and Chinese steamers ply regularly between Shanghai and Hankow throughout the year. During the high water season river steamers also ply between Shanghai and Ichang and Shanghai and Changhas. But during the low water season a Hankow-Ichang service is maintained by steamers also ply between Shanghai and Ichang and Shanghai and Changsha by tugs and lighters.

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Attention was first drawn to Hankow as a place of trade by Hue, 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 asmuch 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 highawys 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