 Complete the following phrase:  By early December the EEF was working round Jerusalem with 53rd W Division advancing towards Bethlehem as flank guard. 210th Middlesex and 24th Queens were ordered to capture the hills at Beit Jala on 8 December and advanced under shellfire that was so accurate that the Middlesex had to pass one road junction by rushes by small parties. But the two battalions found the objective unoccupied. 