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The cartoon titled "Interference" depicts two men by a fireplace: one standing and gesturing animatedly, the other seated. The caption reads: "Did you get any ducks on your hunting trip?" with the standing man's response: "No, but I nearly had a shot at one, when another duck came along and got in the way." This is a simple visual pun about unwanted interference during hunting. The joke relies on the double meaning of "interference"—both the literal obstruction of a hunting shot and the figurative sense of someone meddling in another's affairs. Below is an article titled "Japanxieties" discussing Lord Marquis of the *Sun* and Japanese immigration concerns, touching on geopolitical tensions regarding Japanese expansion into California, Australia, and Canada.

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October 27 “Did you get any ducks on your hunting trip?” “No. but I nearly had a shot at one, when another duck came along and go! Japanxieties M Lord Marquis of the Sun slammed the Japanese with sa- tires the other day for a disposition which he attributes to them to swarm into this country without regard to whether their swarming here would be for this country’s good. Maybe. But our notion is that the J ese have not really any such dis- Pi on, or, at least, any expectation of encouragement in it. They have need of strength to maintain their posi- tion as the only Asiatic power that does Interference not have to take orders from the West- ern world. But strength means popu- lation, and population implies more land to live on. They want to spill over into somebody’s spare land, and the idea seems to be that by making motions to spill into California and Australia and Canada, and making trouble about tec! nicalities when they are dissuaded from that, they will bring it home to the United States and England that it is best to let them spill into Asia. If the rest of Asia could take care of itself, there wouldn’t be any troubl are pe in the way.” about Japan. T! dom foolish, TI ient. Also polite She Had Good References “Nurse, did you kill all th haby’s milk ma’at lopper t comicbooks.com