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World: Asia: Peking

Capital of the Chinese Empire, est. pop. 1,300,000.

ILLU: When Holmes gives the Ming saucer to Watson, he says "A complete set of this would be worth a king's ramsom--in fact, it is doubtful if there is a compolete set outside the imperial palace of Peking."

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