 Đujić subjected local Serbs to constant propaganda, hoping that it would convince them to join the Chetniks.Most ignored his appeals, and continued living peacefully with their Croat neighbours.On 9 January 1935, Đujić, with a carbine slung over his back, presided over a gathering of twenty newly-recruited Chetniks in the village of Sveti Štefan just north of Knin, together with gendarmerie "Brigadni đeneral" Ljubo Novaković and one of Pećanac's deputies who brought Chetnik and Sokol insignia from Belgrade.