Race attacks in two Australian cities linked to Sydney riots

ATTACKS linked to two nights of race rioting in Sydney were reported in two other Australian cities yesterday, but an uneasy calm returned to the streets of Sydney.

As night fell, more than 450 police converged on the beachside suburb of Cronulla and stopped and searched dozens of cars.

But there were no arrests reported and no repeat of the previous night’s rampage in which dozens of cars full of young men of Arab appearance smashed store windows and cars in apparent retaliation for a race riot on Sunday in which 5,000 white men chanted racial slurs and attacked youths they believed were of Lebanese descent.