The expedition of German Field Marshal Waldersee arrived in China on 27 September 1900 — after the military defeat of the Boxer Rebellion by the Eight Nation Alliance — yet he launched 75 punitive raids into northern China to search for and destroy the remaining Boxers. The German soldiers killed more peasants than Boxer guerrillas, because, by autumn 1900, the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists (the Boxers) posed no threat. On 19 November 1900, at the "Reichstag", the German Social Democrat politician August Bebel criticized the Kaiser's attack upon China as shameful to Germany: