Unfortunately the authorities in their narrow views are involuntarily hindering the Croatia and Catholic cause. In many parishes in the diocese... very honest peasants of the Orthodox faith have registered in the Catholic Church... But then outsiders take things in hand. While the newly-converted are at Mass they seize them, men and women alike, and hunt them down like slaves. From Mostar and Caplina the railway carried six boxcars of mothers, girls and children under eight to the station of Surmanci, where they were taken out of the boxcars, brought into the hill and thrown alive, mothers and children, into deep ravines. In the parish of Klepca seven hundred schismatics from the neighboring villages were slaughtered. The Sub-Prefect of Mostar, a Muslim, publicly declared (as a state employee he should have held his tongue) that in Ljubina alone 700 schismatics have been thrown into one pit. In the town of Mostar itself they have been bound by the hundreds, taken in wagons outside the town and then shot down like animals.