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title: '東江陳軍餉械 英國 (Chen''s East River Army: Pay and Arms, Britain), Canton newspaper cartoon'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/east-river-chen-army-pay-arms-canton-1925/
description: A newspaper cartoon shows a British officer, his cap marked with the character for Britain, standing with a hand on his hip while a pig labelled 'East…
section: Collection
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[![東江陳軍餉械 英國 (Chen's East River Army: Pay and Arms, Britain), Canton newspaper cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/east-river-chen-army-pay-arms-canton-1925.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/east-river-chen-army-pay-arms-canton-1925.png)

# 東江陳軍餉械 英國 (Chen's East River Army: Pay and Arms, Britain), Canton newspaper cartoon

A newspaper cartoon shows a British officer, his cap marked with the character for Britain, standing with a hand on his hip while a pig labelled 'East River, Chen's army' feeds at a trough labelled 'pay and arms'. The animal label pinned on a named armed force is the name-calling; the cartoon itself carries only these labels and no supporting text.

- **Date:** October 1925
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Guangzhou Minguo Ribao (Canton Republic Daily), Kuomintang party newspaper
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [China](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=china)
- **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon)
- **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party)
- **Regime:** [Guangzhou Nationalist Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=guangzhou-nationalist-government)
- **Leader:** [Wang Jingwei](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=wang-jingwei)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism)
- **Event:** [Second Eastern Expedition](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=second-eastern-expedition)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from an Internet Archive scan of Guangzhou Minguo Ribao)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%9D%B1%E6%B1%9F%E9%99%B3%E8%BB%8D%E9%A4%89%E6%A2%B0_%E8%8B%B1%E5%9C%8B.png), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (1925; Commons tags PD-US-expired, PD-old-70) Guangzhou Minguo Ribao (廣州民國日報), 1925; via Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese (traditional characters)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[cap] 英
[pig] 東江
陳軍
[trough] 餉械
[artist's mark, lower right] 雲
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[cap] Britain
[pig] East River / Chen's army
[trough] pay and arms
[artist's mark] Yun
```

The label on the pig is written down its flank in two vertical pairs, read as 東江 then 陳軍. No caption or headline is visible in the cropped image; the title above is the Commons file title.

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