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Show TRINITY COLLEGE STUDENTS SAVE BANK OF IRELAND LIVERPOOL, April SO. TM7 a. m. How Trinity college students saved the Bank of Ireland is told by a resident of Liverpool, who has just arrived from Dublin. "It was the intention of the Sinn Fein-, ers." lie said, "to take this 'institution : and its valuable contents, and a body of rebels came along with t lie express purpose pur-pose of putting this intention into execution. execu-tion. Opposite the bank stands famous Trinity college, where an officers' training train-ing corps of students is stationed, and the young officers had a warm reception fn readiness. "The rebels came along In great style, anticipating no trouble and shooting down the half dozen soldiers always on guard at the bank. But ns they advanced ad-vanced there was a rltle volley, and some of the attacking party dropped to the ground. "The college had been transformed into a veritable fortress. In the windows were sat if bags, loop - hoi fd,-' behind which the officers were waiting 'to slve battle. The tnsurents were stupefied, and for a moment mo-ment hesitated as to what they should ;lo. Then Severn! sprang forward, shouting shout-ing to their comrades, and the rebels pressed on. "Again came a volley from the windows win-dows of Trinity. More men fell, and the rebels broke in disorder and fled." |