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Show TURKEY MUST RANSOM AMERICAN MISSIONARY. United State Will Iusiat thut Turkey Mnko Good any Deliclt and Refund American Subscriptions. "The United States Government will insist that Tuikey immediately make good any deficit in the subscriptions for the raDsom of Miss Stone," says the Constantinople correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, "and also refund re-fund the full amount subscribed." The London Daily News, in an editorial edi-torial upon the case of Miss Stone, while sympathizing with the efforts in her behalf, expresses the opinion that the payment of such a large ransom is a very questionable proceeding. "Turkey could easily stamp out brigandage," brig-andage," says the Daily News, "but so long as benevolent foreigners will pay high ransoms why should the Turks be troubled?" It suggests that Miss Stone's letter is "just such a document as a clever brigand chief would drop into the American letter-box at the present moment," and concludes by remarking. "An army of brigands endowed en-dowed by American subscriptions will not add to the tranquillity of eastern Europe." The Russian Government has repeated re-peated its expressions of a desire to assist the United States Government by all practical means in rescuing Miss Stone. The other powers are equally solicitous, solic-itous, but Russia is the best able to bring the necessary pressure to bear. |