A bit of the Monti Carlo car racing I think at the start of the newsreel. In 1932 the British Movietone film makers played "Advance Australia Fair" at the end 50 years before it became our national anthem.
All of these men and women would be rolling in their grave if they saw the state of the country right now. Everything they worked for handed to people who raised arms against them historically multiple times. Their country conquered by their long time enemies without a shot being fired in her defence.
Another newsreel company got the footage of De Groot being dragged off his horse (an exclusive 'scoop') so British Movietone could not include that action.
Rode up and said "In the name of the great people of NSW I declare the bridge open" cut it with his sword and then was detained to be assessed for mental illness. Was found sane and paid £10 for disturbing the peace and I think £15 for the ribbon.
De Groot was an Irishman living in Australia and not a real Captain either. He should have been charged with impersonating an Army Officer, which I think is still an offence in the Commonwealth of Australia. I think he was associated with the so called "New Guard" which was close to being a fascist organization, like Mosley's mob in the UK, that did not like the elected government of NSW with Jack Lang as Premier. The New Guard imploded when WW2 started if not earlier.
The New Guard was infiltrated by Superintendant Billy Mackay, a high-ranking officer in the New South Wales Police Force, exploiting a vulnerability in the organisational structure of the New Guard: there was chain of command, but members were encouraged to use their initiative and exploit opportunities to carry out activities which were consistent with the New Guard's objectives. Orders to carry out operations were written on unsigned sheets of paper pushed under the front doors of members asked to participate in operations. An attempt was made to kidnap Jock Garden, a leading Union official, by several members acting on such orders, on May 6, 1932. Garden and his sons fought off the attack and captured one of the seven attackers, who admitted his actions and named his accomplices. Billy Mackay organised raids on New Guard locations all over the city, and police seized a great many documents. News of the attack on Garden and disclosure of plans to kidnap Lang and his Cabinet discredited the New Guard in the eyes of the public and many of its own members and supporters. Shortly afterwards, the state Governor, Sir Phillip Game, dismissed Lang and called new elections because of Lang's refusal to withdraw a circular to public servants which Game viewed as requiring them to act contrary to law. Lang lost the subsequent election and the Nationalists returned to power in New South Wales. With the New Guard largely discredited and the main reason for its existence, opposition to Jack Lang, now no longer necessary, it quickly faded from the scene.
He wasn't impersonating an Army Officer, he had actually been an Army Officer in the 15th Hussars, and therefore had every right to continue to use the title 'Captain'.
The name De Groot does not sound very Irish, even so he was in Australia and not in the Australian Army. Any previous service with a foreign Army is irrelevant. He may have found his place in Austrian Army (Hitlers birth nation) being a New Guard Fascist dog he was.
@@adrianjackson2696 So, first of all, regardless of your personal aspersions regarding his surname, he was born in Ireland, grew up and was educated there. And regarding his service in a 'foreign Army', Australia was a dominion of the crown, and so Her Majesty's British Army was by no means a 'foreign' force. And regardless of the nationality of their service, retired soldiers are permitted to use their last held rank, and that's neither 'impersonating an Army Officer', nor is it a crime despite your pretensions that it might be. And that final quip of yours about Austria is not only completely uninformed, as Hitler served in the Royal Bavarian, and not in the Austrian Army, but neither is it particularly witty.
@@jimslickens I was an Australian Army Officer from 1972-1995 and all other armies, even the British Army, are foreign a armies. De Groot after the bridge incident, passed into obscurity I understand, and what a weedy looking rat face grub he was as shown on the newsreel.
Legend
A bit of the Monti Carlo car racing I think at the start of the newsreel. In 1932 the British Movietone film makers played "Advance Australia Fair" at the end 50 years before it became our national anthem.
All of these men and women would be rolling in their grave if they saw the state of the country right now. Everything they worked for handed to people who raised arms against them historically multiple times. Their country conquered by their long time enemies without a shot being fired in her defence.
didnt Francis De Groot cut the ribbon?
Yeah, he cut it first. They re-tied it so that Jack Lang could cut it.
His horse broke the ribbon.
Another newsreel company got the footage of De Groot being dragged off his horse (an exclusive 'scoop') so British Movietone could not include that action.
Rode up and said "In the name of the great people of NSW I declare the bridge open" cut it with his sword and then was detained to be assessed for mental illness. Was found sane and paid £10 for disturbing the peace and I think £15 for the ribbon.
Fun fact: He died on April 1st
No mames osea lo inauguraron el mismo dia de la declaración de guerra entre eeuu y España también cuando eeuu tomó cuba filipinas y guam
De Groot was an Irishman living in Australia and not a real Captain either. He should have been charged with impersonating an Army Officer, which I think is still an offence in the Commonwealth of Australia. I think he was associated with the so called "New Guard" which was close to being a fascist organization, like Mosley's mob in the UK, that did not like the elected government of NSW with Jack Lang as Premier. The New Guard imploded when WW2 started if not earlier.
The New Guard was infiltrated by Superintendant Billy Mackay, a high-ranking officer in the New South Wales Police Force, exploiting a vulnerability in the organisational structure of the New Guard: there was chain of command, but members were encouraged to use their initiative and exploit opportunities to carry out activities which were consistent with the New Guard's objectives. Orders to carry out operations were written on unsigned sheets of paper pushed under the front doors of members asked to participate in operations.
An attempt was made to kidnap Jock Garden, a leading Union official, by several members acting on such orders, on May 6, 1932. Garden and his sons fought off the attack and captured one of the seven attackers, who admitted his actions and named his accomplices. Billy Mackay organised raids on New Guard locations all over the city, and police seized a great many documents. News of the attack on Garden and disclosure of plans to kidnap Lang and his Cabinet discredited the New Guard in the eyes of the public and many of its own members and supporters. Shortly afterwards, the state Governor, Sir Phillip Game, dismissed Lang and called new elections because of Lang's refusal to withdraw a circular to public servants which Game viewed as requiring them to act contrary to law. Lang lost the subsequent election and the Nationalists returned to power in New South Wales. With the New Guard largely discredited and the main reason for its existence, opposition to Jack Lang, now no longer necessary, it quickly faded from the scene.
He wasn't impersonating an Army Officer, he had actually been an Army Officer in the 15th Hussars, and therefore had every right to continue to use the title 'Captain'.
The name De Groot does not sound very Irish, even so he was in Australia and not in the Australian Army. Any previous service with a foreign Army is irrelevant. He may have found his place in Austrian Army (Hitlers birth nation) being a New Guard Fascist dog he was.
@@adrianjackson2696 So, first of all, regardless of your personal aspersions regarding his surname, he was born in Ireland, grew up and was educated there. And regarding his service in a 'foreign Army', Australia was a dominion of the crown, and so Her Majesty's British Army was by no means a 'foreign' force. And regardless of the nationality of their service, retired soldiers are permitted to use their last held rank, and that's neither 'impersonating an Army Officer', nor is it a crime despite your pretensions that it might be. And that final quip of yours about Austria is not only completely uninformed, as Hitler served in the Royal Bavarian, and not in the Austrian Army, but neither is it particularly witty.
@@jimslickens I was an Australian Army Officer from 1972-1995 and all other armies, even the British Army, are foreign a armies. De Groot after the bridge incident, passed into obscurity I understand, and what a weedy looking rat face grub he was as shown on the newsreel.