Mutsu Munemitsu
In 1891, Tōgō's health had sufficiently recovered that he was appointed to the command of the cruiser . In 1894, at the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, Tōgō, as a captain of "Naniwa", sank the transport ship, "Kowshing", which was chartered by the Chinese Beiyang Fleet to convey troops, during the Battle of Pungdo. A report of the incident was sent by Suematsu Kenchō to Mutsu Munemitsu. The ship, which was under the command of captain T.R. Galsworthy, who incidentally had been one of Tōgō's instructors as a young cadet on HMS "Worcester", had been ferrying more than a thousand Chinese soldiers towards Korea, and these soldiers had refused to be taken prisoner or interned on the appearance and under threat from the Japanese warships.