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November 4, 1929

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DECISIVE VICTORY FOR CHINESE REBELS; NATIONALISTS FLEE; Heavy Hand-to-Hand Fighting Is Reported by Japanese Officials at Hankow. MANY WOUNDS BY BAYONETS Ten Thousand Government Men Desert Near Laohokow and Begin Looting Towns. FUGITIVES FILL TENGCHOW Battle Climaxes Struggle Under Way for Months to Oust President Chiang. Red Planes Reported Captured. Revolt Led by Left Wing. DECISIVE VICTORY FOR CHINESE REBELS Rebellion Spread Rapidly.

By Unknown Author

Nationalist forces repulsed and 10,000 of their forces desert, according to Japanese officials at Hankow; map; review of rebellion

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POWERS WILL SPEED PRELIMINARY WORK FOR NAVAL PARLEY; MacDonald Will Resume Activity After His Report to Commons Tomorrow--Sure of Support. BRIAND SEEKS ITALIAN DEAL Likely to Offer Mediterranean Parity to Rome, but Not Full Equality in Fleets. HOOVER TO SEE JAPANESE Oriental Delegation Will Stop in Washington for Talks on Its Way to London. Debate on India Looms. French Position Delicate. Expected to Keep Washington Stand. WILL SPEED WORK FOR NAVAL PARLEY Stimson to See Japanese.

By Edwin L. James. Special Cable To the New York Times

Armament limitation negotiations

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Notable Births

Anastasios of Albania

1929Anastasios of Albania, Greek-Albanian archbishop (died 2025)[†]

Archbishop Anastasios, was the Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania and as such the primate and Head of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. He was elected in June 1992. He was Professor Emeritus of the National University of Athens and an honorary member of the Academy of Athens. Anastasios was one of the presidents of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. He was also the honorary president of the World Conference of Religions for Peace.

Shakuntala Devi

1929Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (died 2013)[†]

Shakuntala Devi was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London. Devi was a precocious child, and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education.