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safeguards for life and property, no law but that 

 of the strong hand, 'nothing. Now not only are 

 there excellent roads, but a trunk railway line 

 traverses the country. The sanitation, of the towns 

 at any rate, is very fair. Gendarmes patrol every 

 part of the province ; robbery with violence is 

 unknown. An excellent code is severely enforced, 

 and before the law Austrian, Serb, and Turk, 

 Koman, Greek, and Moslem, are equal. Moreover, 

 as I have already pointed out, tremendous efforts 

 are being made at improving the condition of the 

 peasantry by helping them to advance to the 

 modern standard of husbandry. 



It is, of course, well known that for purposes of 

 government the Herzegovina is considered part of 

 Bosnia. In many ways the idea is absurd, for the 

 two countries and the two peoples have little in 

 common, but in practice it works well enough, and 

 is economical. The entire " Administered Ter- 

 ritory " (Occwpationsgebiet) is divided into some 

 half-dozen prefectures (Kreise), and of these the 

 Herzegovina forms one, its administrative centre 

 being, of course, at Mostar. The Prefect (Kreis- 

 vorsteher) is subject to the Central Government 

 at Sarajevo. Under him come nine Sub-Pre- 

 fects (Bezirksvorsteher), stationed respectively at 

 Mostar, Nevesinje, Ljubuski, Konjica, Stolac, 

 Bilek, Gacko, and Trebinje. The ninth is for the 

 town of Mostar. Under these stand directly the 



