However, the Qing dynasty was cornered when a secretary of the Japanese Embassy was assassinated by the soldiers of Tofukusho that guarded Beijing after being dispatched from Gansu Province in June 1900, and Klemens von Ketteler of the envoy of German Empire, was killed several days later by Boxers.
1900年6月、甘粛省から呼ばれて北京を警護していた董福祥（とうふくしょう）配下の兵士に日本公使館書記が殺害され、数日後今度はドイツ公使ケットラー（KlemensvonKetteler）が義和団に殺害されると、清朝は一層の窮地に立たされたのである。