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The article reports on Taoist leaders Li Kwei-ying and Chiang Chang-en in Hunan Province in China who were sentenced to death for allegedly preparing paper-made warships and armaments in a vicious attempt to equip an army of the dead and attack the Communist Party. It notes that for Taoist, objects can be passed to the spirit world if paper representations are burned. It says that at first the two were given only eight years but a mass demonstration protested that it was a too light punishment.

The article reports on the execution of counterrevolutionaries by the Communists in China. It was reported in a Communist paper in Hunan province that landowners were being executed by peasant militiamen armed with spears and rifles. It is noted that the killing in China has raised concerns among Communist leaders in Peking and public trials and executions were excuses for the failure of Chinese forces to win the war in Korea.