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Show GOVERNMENT IS HELPLESS. Has No Power to Expsnd Any Honey for Ransom. Washington. Sept. . 2S. This statement state-ment was' made today touching the case of Miss Stone, the American missionary mis-sionary kidnaped by Bulgarian brigands: brig-ands: ''. . "The department of state will do everything within its international and legal powers to .relieve the situation." The limitations upon the department's activities indicated in tne above statements state-ments are severe. There is no warrant of law for the expenditure of a single cent of money from the United States treasury for ransom and the inference is that the department's action, if indeed, in-deed, any is taken, will be along diplomatic diplo-matic lines,-tending to induce the Bulgarian Bul-garian and Turkish governments! to undertake to release the captive; ' |