he had competition from the army. Its own busy operatives produced a voluminous Weekly Intelligence Summary for John French’s Home Forces headquarters, with eight categories including “General Public Opinion” and “Acts of Disloyalty.” Reports under each heading were contributed by regional army commands around the country, one of which added a ninth category, “Movements of Irishmen.” Agents dutifully recorded the graffiti in army latrines; scrawled on the wall of one in Yorkshire was “What the hell are we fighting for, only the capitalists.”
