With concern over the movement south from Shanghai to Canton, a traditional hotbed of unrest in China, of the Chinese revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Asheville was sent south to Shantou. Sailing on 27 January 1923 for South China, Asheville reached Shantou on the 30th.
With concern over the movement from Shanghai to Canton, a historically unstable region in China, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was sent south to Shantou by Asheville. The journey began on January 27, 1923 and Asheville arrived in Shantou on January 30.