Cited from the newspaper article:

“Provocations. In response to a letter published in an earlier issue of Dubrovnik, in which Croats offer money in exchange for the expulsion of Serbs, we report the following incidents:

1.) One evening, at around midnight, near Ploče, a certain Š. Oskar Prtić approached a young Serbian man, a baker’s apprentice, named Konal, and struck him on the head with a stone, causing him to fall to the ground, where he lay unconscious.

2.) On Sunday evening, the watchmaker A. Zipfel entered the shop of Nikola Čikata, where only his children were present. Upon seeing a police officer in a Croatian Red Shirt uniform, he shouted at the little boy: “Throw that … out!” The boy became frightened, began to cry, and hurried to summon the Croatian Red Shirts to the tavern.

3.) On the previous Sunday, four men from Postranje were in the tavern Nacional. A certain Oliva, a Serb, began insulting and harassing them because of their alleged support for the idea of a united Serbdom (srpstvo) in Postranje. At this, a young Croat, Oliva, struck him in the chest with his fist without any apparent reason, other than that he had taken offence at the conduct of the well-behaved men of Postranje.”

4.) On the same Sunday, the well-known Ivo Zipfel, together with four Serbian troublemakers, threatened the Croat Andro Devo: “Tonight Devo will pay us.” Devo was standing on the Canal, and just as they had threatened him, those five were waiting for him near his house. Mare, Devo’s wife, remembered what was being prepared for her husband, ran into town to warn him. Friends escorted Devo home, and those “heroes,” seeing Devo’s escort, ran away.

5.) The other day the peaceful Croat Turina was walking home in the evening with his family. By chance he met Ivo Zipfel, who snatched the umbrella from his hands and broke it to pieces. Turina protested and asked him why he had done that damage, and he answered: “Because you are a Croat.”

6.) A certain Pasarić “Serbia” was harassing the Croat Beatović, a baker, this Tuesday and mocking him because he is a Croat. On Wednesday afternoon Beatović was sitting quietly by the bread sale of Mr. Furlani. Pasarić arrived with a piece of stick and began harassing him. Beatović threw the stick back at him and tried to move away, but the other hit him with a fist in the back.

Well, he turned around and answered him. The police intervened and wanted to lock both of them up, but the merchants present who had seen that Beatović had stood quietly managed to prevent him from being locked up, saying he was not guilty. But when the sergeant arrived he forcibly dragged him out of Orepic’s shop and locked him up as well. Messrs. Furlani and Orepic began to plead that he be released because he was not guilty, all the more so since he was supposed to be in Orepic’s oven that night, and that they should lock him up the next day, but the commissioner answered them: “I will not release him, because otherwise the purpose is not achieved, and tomorrow I can no longer lock him up.”

Source

Crvena Hrvatska (Red Croatia), a Croatian political weekly published in Dubrovnik. 1892.