A stream called the Han River separates Hankow from Hanyang, and these two towns, together with Wu-chang across the Yangtse, are known as the Wu-Han cities. The steel mills, which are often referred to as the "Hankow mills," are at Hanyang.
1929 April 6, “Hankow in Hands of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek”, in The China Weekly Review[2], volume XLVIII, number 6, →OCLC, page 226, column 1:
The main forces of the Wu-Han armies were concentrated on the line extending from Yanglo to Hsiaokwan by way of Huangpi.
The other day I learned from a newspaper report that practically all of the 200 Communists who had been executed in Wu-Han were twenty-five or below and that the majority of them had been girls.
