Australia and Australians have had a long association with Shanghai - as journalists, officials, servicemen and women, and in business. Throughout the period in which Sapajou worked, however, they tended to be subsumed under a more general British and Imperial identity. The following exchange recorded by Morrison in his An Australian in China tells a tale little understood by many Australians today:

"We drew alongside the junk and an Englishman appeared at the window.

"Where from?" he asked laconically.

"Australia."

"The devil, so am I. What part?"

It should be added that the Australian Englishman, Morrison, was proud to identify himself as a Scot.

Nevertheless, Australia as Australia also left its mark, and the annual Anzac Day service at the War Memorial on the Bund (destroyed by the Japanese) was a regular feature on the Shanghai calendar, as were certain other features of the country faithfully recorded by Sapajou in five of the six cartoons that I have been able to identify dealing with or mentioning Australia: gambling, specifically the introduction of "the Tote" in Victoria (Figure 63); Trade Unions (Figure 64); test cricket, twice - the "bodyline" controversy clearly attracting far more attention from discerning Shanghailanders than problems closer to home (Figures 65 and 66); and trade, where the staple and now stereotypical pre-war exports to China of primary produce are counted as little by Sapajou against the equally stereotypical kangaroo, cricket, boomerang and Sydney Harbour Bridge (Figure 67).

The last cartoon in which Australia features introduces a more sombre note, and links us back to the previous folio by showing Australia as the ultimate objective of Imperial Japanese pearl diving in the South Seas (Figure 68).