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1901 - In Ottoman Macedonia, the center of the American Protestant Mission in Salonica sent a group of missionaries consists of the American Miss Helen Stone after they had received permission to open a protestant course in Bansko, Pirin-Macedonia. The ethnic Macedonian leader Jane Sandanski and his men kidnap Helen Stone as means of drawing the attention of world public opinion towards the situation in Macedonia and to raise money for the armaments of new groups of freedom fighters. In the beginning, Ms Stone, being a pacifist, disapproves of the komiti but later, witnessing what the Macedonian people have to stand to survive and going through combat actions with the Turks.