The Archive · 1904

Going Ahead

Few visitors come our way, but still there's far more of interest in and around] Hankow, Wuchang, Hanyang, and the railway than there ever will be in Shan 2 Shanghai is no longer China (thank goodness, says the Shanghaiite); it gives the stranger no idea what China proper is or how the Chinese really live in their own country. Now Hankow on the contrary has every thi interest the globe-trotter. the trip a up this mighty" river is worth and then the city of Hankow its wonderful shipping in the Han n the Hanyang Tron Works, pi ang with its interesting Pagoda Silk Filuture, China Grass Military' School, ete.

Anyone wit th his eves little pocket. money could us! his fortune here in Iand in five or six v There is no doubt whater that. withi very few years Hankow be the ye: of trade for all Chins for every chis of earzo both export_and import. and that. people are already beginning to realise this is shown by the stewly advance in the price of Land out-

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