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Show CARUSO ROUSES , IRE OF ALLIES Down in Buenos Ayres. absorbed in earning a press agent's fabulous $7,000 a night, Enrico Caruso may bo blissfully ignorant of the letter which has been appearing over his name in tho German press as having heen written by him to a Munich lawyer friend. Caruso's alleged sympathy with Germany has caused bitter comment in London and New York. Here is a part of the widely quoted letter that is still awaiting Caruso's acknowledgement or disapproval of its paternity: "The protest against the alleged German barbarities was also offered to me for my signature. But neither I nor Erraete Novelli, nor Zacconf, nor Eleonora Duse, nor Mascagni, nor Leoncavello signed the protest, and Puccini took a similar attitude toward to-ward it. It is true that Leoricavallo's name was put on the list of signatories signator-ies without his consent, but he made an energetic protest against this use of his name. "It requires much personal courage just now to swim against the tide, since the signatures of a whole list of other distinguished artists were squeezed out of them by threats of violence. "We Italian artists have a very great deal to be thankful to Germany Ger-many for, both artistically and materially ma-terially I am proud of the title of Royal Prussian Kammersaenger. It is in German' that I have won my greatest successes and fairest recognition. recog-nition. And I know that it was In Germany that SIgnora Duso has accumulated ac-cumulated the greater part of her considerable fortune (all of which floVed into the pockets of her former friend d'Annunzlo) " Which, If it all be true, will make slim houses for Caruso in London should he ever sing there age in |