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An anti-Chinese cartoon titled ‘The Mongolian Octopus’, published in the Bulletin in 1886

An anti-Chinese propaganda cartoon titled ‘The Mongolian Octopus - His Grip on Australia’, The Bulletin, 21 August 1886. The image shows the head of a person depicted as an octopus with eight tentacles. Each tentacle is holding a person or object with text written on each tentacle.

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