Establishment of a Newspaper Telegram Service for Internal Communications in Syria and Lebanon

Type

Decision

Number

1057

Date of the text

07/10/1921

Official Gazette

published in 1921

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

1

What it provides

This decree creates a discounted telegraph rate, fifty percent below the ordinary domestic tariff, for newspaper news dispatches within Syria and Lebanon. Only holders of special permits issued by the finance administration on a newspaper's request may use it, and the decree bars selling or disclosing such telegrams be

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1921. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.