 Engineers immediately started to build the road while convoys of jeeps , mules and camels were organised from Hulda to carry 65 @-@ millimetre ( 2 @.@ 6 in ) mortars to Jerusalem . Without knowing the goals of these works , the Jordanians realised a game was afoot in the hills . They performed artillery bombings , that would anyway have been rapidly stopped under the orders of the top British officer , and they sent patrols to stop the works , but without success . 
