Mandarin Dialect

For Chinese Pacific Schools

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete. Oct. 2.

A RRANGEMENTS have been made for instruction of children and adults in the Mandarin dialect of the Chinese language at the Chinese schools on Tahiti.

The Nanking Government, recognising the necessity of a common speech if the united of China is to be accomplished, has selected the Mandarin dialect for that purpose.

The Chinese of French Oceania are mainly from Southern China and use the Cantonese and kindred dialects. As the Chinese ideographs have the same signi ficance in all dialects, the change from their native speech to Mandarin will pre sent no difficulties to those who have acquired knowledge of Chinese writing, so far as correspondence and record keeping are concerned.