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
Made by: Guangzhou Minguo Ribao (Canton Republic Daily), Kuomintang party newspaper
Region: East Asia
Country: China
Medium: Cartoon
Issuer type: Party
Regime: Guangzhou Nationalist Government
Leader: Wang Jingwei
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Themes: War and the military, Empire and colonialism
Event: Second Eastern Expedition
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), 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.