The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-19
OPPOSED TO GIVING RANSOM
BULGARIA. WILL NOT ENTER
 INTO THE NEGOTIATIONS.
Not Willing to EstnbIish n Precedent and Encourage the Many Robbers Infesting the Neis Against Being Held Responstbie- Troops Will Pursue and AnnihiIate the Brigands fl Found In Bulgaria.
the Brigands fl Found in Bulgaria.

l Troops Will Pursue and AnnihiIate l the Brigands fl Found In Bulgaria. | Vienna, Oct. 1S.-.According to the
 Politische Correspondent, M. Saratoff, 1 Bulgarian minister of the interior and
 ad interim minister of foreign affairs,
 addressed a, note to MT. Dickinson, | United States consul general in Con- stantinople a few days ago, in which,
 after complaining that the consul gen.
 eral had expressed dissatisfaction with the measures the Bulgarian govern
 ment had taken against the kidnappers
 of Miss Stone, he strongly protested
 against his government being held re- sponsible for crime committed on
 Turkish territory and declared that in order to guard itself from a serious and unmerited accusation the Bulgarian government had resolved, should the
 robber band try to cross the Bulgarian frontier or succeed in stealing into Bull
 garia to have it mercilessly pursued
 and annihilated by Bulgarian troops.
 We will not enter into any negotia-
 tions whatever for paying ransom,
 said M Saratoff, "as we do not want
 precedents established for the many
 robbers infesting the neighborhood to
 turn 10 Bulgaria whenever 1t seems
 to their odvantage. We are firmly de-
 termined to make an example which
 will deter robbers from repeating such
 speculations
 Tt will then no longer be possible to accuse Bulgaria of harboring secret committees which organize bands for Kidnapping foreigners in Turkey and removing them to Bulgaria, there peacefully to enjoy the ransom they extort."
 London, Oct. 19-Commenting upon the statement of the Politische Cores pondenz regording the letter from M. Saratoff, the Bulgarian minister, to MT. Dickinson, the Vienna correspond ent of the Standard says:
 Tt may be regarded as convincing proof that Bulgaria is shielding the Macedonian committee and that the Sofio correspondents of the Politische Correspondent, the Pester-Lloyd and other papers were correct when de- claring that Macedonians disguised as Turks had kidnapped Miss Stone and that regular game Is being played by Bulgarian troops on one side and Turk ish troops on the other side of the from tier, each side trying to smuggle pris- oners over the border in order that the ransom paid by sentimental Americans may be recovered as the Bulgarians wish, from Turkey and, as the Turks wish, from Bulgaria. and that some prisoners, but for this farce, could be | produced at any moment
 The right course now is not to pay | ransom, but to hold Bulgaria responsi- | ble for every hair of Miss Stones head. | Those who know the facts see no | reason to anticipate any danger to her | lie"
 London, Oct 19.-"Four thousand | and Turkish troops have been occupied in the effort to obtain | Miss Stones release" says a despatch | from Sofia to the Morning Leader. Tt Is believed here that her release would have been effected but for MT. refusal to offer her captors more than an ordinary pour boire MT. extraordinary action Is re- garded as suicidal A large sum must De paid to the brigands, as otherwise Miss Stones life will be sacrificed. If Mr. Dickinson desires vengeance on the origands the woman must be ransomed irst."
 London, Oct 19.-"An extraordinary yersion of the Stone abduction comes o-day from Constantinople,' says a dispatch from Vienna to the Daily Tel graph. Tt Is declared in Turkish of icial circles that Miss Stone sympa- hizes with the Macedonian committee lnd herself agreed to the kidnapping, 10 that ransom would be paid to the committee. Comment upon this story s quite superfuous.