September 20, 1920.
French Consulate in Valparaiso
Directorate of the Commercial and Political Affairs
The French Consul in Valparaiso to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs
“I have the honor to inform your Excellency that, following the instructions of the Legation of France at Santiago, I transmitted to the local Syrian colony the ministerial telegram of September 13, 1920, confirming the independence of Greater Lebanon under the French mandate, declared on September 1, 1920 [...]”