HAN-KAU

[s. 305] : A city in the province of Hu-pei, China, situated on the north side of the Yangtse River, at its junction with the Han, about 450 miles west of Shanghai. It is the largest commercial center of Middle China, was opened to foreign trade in 1858, and is connected with Shanghai by regular steamships. The British settlement is on the river front in the eastern portion of the city, where foreign houses and roadways are built. The native city is surrounded by a wall eighteen It feet high and four miles in circumference. contains a population estimated at 300,000. Wu-chang, the capital of the province, is on the southern bank of the Yangtse, opposite Hankau, and the two are often spoken of together with Han-yang, which faces Han-kau on the other side of the Han River, as one city. The population of the three cities together is about 1,200,000. Station of the LMS (1861), the PE (1868), theWMS, theCIM (1889), the American Norwegian Luther an Church (1891), and the United Evangelical Church (1900). These societies together have (1903) 35 mi ionaries, men and women; 72 native workers, men and women; 32 outstations, 11 places of worship, 19 day schools, 2 boarding schools, 5 dispensaries, and 5 hospitals. The has special work among the blind, and the LMS has a theological school and a training school for women evangelistic workers. The National Bible Society of Scotland has here a printing house under charge of two agents (with their wives), and 27 native workers. Name also written Hankow. 305