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Show Miss Stone's Abductf rs Have Not Been Promised jjiumunlty. Tt is said at thej state department that no authoiizat pn has been sent to Consul-General Iickinson to promise exemption from 'unishment of the brigands who kidnapped Msss Stone as one of the conditions of her ransom. In fact, our government has not authorized au-thorized any pronUse whatever to be made that would bind its hands in dealing with thisfsubjuct in the future or tliat it would orevent it either from Insisting on punishment of the brigands brig-ands or from lodging a demand for full indemnity ibr the, money which may be paid over as ransom for Miss Stone.' : 1 |