Show ILLTREATED BY BRITISH Two Americans Arrested in Transvaal Trans-vaal and Abused New York Sept 26 William Phelps and John Anderson claiming California Califor-nia as their home arrived today on the steamship Spaarndam from flat lerdam Phelps says he went to thc Transvaal in ISfll Anderson says he left Chicago in 1897 for Johannesburg and engaged as a miner When the war broke out In South Africa they look the neutralityoath In July of this year they were arrested In Fau resburg by British soldlora and sent lo thP barracks whore they claim they were abused They protested that they were Americans They were kept aa prisoners fortyeight hours and then sent away on a cattle train They were finally landed at Flushing Holland Thc American Consul there could do nothing for them and the British Consul Con-sul sent them to Rotterdam whence they came here Phelps says he was born in England and Anderson claims to be a native of Sweden but both asSert as-sert they were naturalized citizens of this country |